State / loyalist
estimate · not a score
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
🇵🇸PS ·
TV/radio · state-controlled
· pbc.ps
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State / loyalist
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| Founded | 1993-07-06 — Establishment of the General Authority for Palestinian Radio and Television (Palestine TV / PBC) by Presidential Decree No. 4566, issued by President Yasser Arafat, per the corporation's own About page. · source |
| Headquarters | Ramallah, Palestine (current headquarters building opened 4 February 2015) · source |
| Funding | Established as a Palestinian Authority public institution by presidential decree; PBC's own About page states it is currently overseen by a presidentially-appointed Supervisor General of Official Media (since January 2016). Wikipedia additionally reports partial US government funding until 1998 and a 2010 decree by President Abbas converting PBC into a formal public institution. |
| In its own words | Describes itself as: "Code of Ethics page states commitment to 'journalistic values of honesty, courage, fairness, balance, independence and credibility' (التمسك بالقيم الصحفية من صدق وجرأة وإنصاف وتوازن واستقلالية ومصداقية) and to avoiding 'prioritization of commercial or political considerations over professional standards.'." |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Asserted versus attributed
recognition itself stated as fact — in 1 article
Attribution
'historic' attributed to the Palestinian ambassador — in 1 article
Dead counted, not named
two dead are counted as 'citizens' and none are named; the wounded are not counted — in 1 article
Dead named
Gives the dead man's full name and age. — in 1 article
From 766 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
1 misleading7 unverified
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palestinian National Authority | state body | not disclosed | yes | charter | — | link |
| Palestinian National Authority | state body | not disclosed | yes | state funding | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
General manager
Supervisor General of Official Media (oversight role over PBC, per PBC's own Abo
Named on PBC's own About Us page as the presidentially-appointed supervisor of official media since January 2016.
Journalists
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Covers
What we hold from them
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Al-Monitor: Iran hit "more than a dozen" ships. An-Nahar names five Iranian tankers destroyed by US Central Command
— read, nothing on this event
Haaretz calls Israel's answer a "nothingburger"; Al Jazeera counts four countermeasures
— read, nothing on this event
An-Nahar says more than twenty hit around Nabatieh, IRNA says one killed and two wounded
— read, nothing on this event
France 24 says twelve countries will ban settlement goods; the Jerusalem Post calls it the "UK's Israel boycott"
— read, nothing on this event