Terrorexpertise:UK Television List

Comparison of BBC and ITN/Channel 4 news items on Terrorism 2000 - 2006

Below is a table showing appearances by Terrorism Experts on UK Television between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2006. 435 names from the Bulk List were searched at the archives of the BBC Motion Gallery and ITN Source for appearances on ITN, Channel 4, BBC News and BBC Current Affairs programmes.

Only appearances relating to terrorism were recorded. The table is arranged according to the total number of items returned, and then alphabetically according to surname.

In addition the graph on the right shows the percentage of items on terrorism returned during quarterly periods between 2000 and 2006 on the BBC compared with ITN and Channel 4. The graph apparently shows an increase in items on terrorism following attacks in New York, Madrid and London, the Israeli-Lebanon war, as well as a marked increase in BBC coverage in late 2002 to early 2003.

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This list is one of a number compiled including:

• Terrorexpertise:Bulk List
• Terrorexpertise:Experts from the Social Science Citations Index
• Terrorexpertise:Experts from Google
• Terrorexpertise:Experts from Google Books
• Terrorexpertise:Experts from Elite Conferences
• Terrorexpertise:Experts from Major World Publications
• Terrorexpertise:Experts from The 'Terrorism' Industry

The Experts

Name of Expert	ITN & Channel 4 News Items	BBC News and Current Affairs Items	Total Items
Peter Clarke	85	66	151
Michael Clarke	56	69	125
Dan Plesch	17	60	77
Crispin Black	10	66	76
M. J. Gohel	22	49	71
Charles Shoebridge	36	35	71
Patrick Mercer	18	20	38
Eric Moonman	36	2	38
Jason Burke	21	13	34
John O'Connor	19	15	34
Will Geddes	30	0	30
Richard Clarke	9	19	28
Neil Doyle	26	2	28
John Gearson	23	4	27
Sajjan Gohel	12	15	27
Benjamin Netanyahu	12	14	26
Paul Wilkinson	13	9	22
Michael Dewar	2	19	21
Sally Leivesley	7	14	21
David Veness	7	14	21
Bill Durodie	9	10	19
Peter Power	7	12	19
Kevin Toolis	11	8	19
Paul Beaver	9	8	17
Paul Eedle	17	0	17
Hazhir Teimourian	12	5	17
David Claridge	14	2	16
Anthony Cordesman	0	16	16
Rohan Gunaratna	12	4	16
Mustafa Alani	3	12	15
Gwyn Prins	14	0	14
Paul Rogers	4	9	13
Kirsten Schulze	10	1	11
Alex Standish	9	2	11
David Capitanchik	7	3	10
Sidney Jones	5	5	10
Tariq Ramadan	5	5	10
Andrew Rathmell	10	0	10
Simon Reeve	8	2	10
Mike Yardley	10	0	10
Bruce Hoffman	2	7	9
Martin Navias	4	5	9
Andrew Silke	4	4	8
Alan Dershowitz	1	6	7
Andrew Garfield	5	2	7
David George	3	4	7
Alan Murray	3	4	7
Musa Admani	0	6	6
Shane Brighton	4	2	6
Steve Emerson	6	0	6
Anthony Glees	1	5	6
Michael McGinty	3	3	6
Michael Scheuer	0	6	6
Steve Simon	4	2	6
Rogelio Alonso	3	2	5
Alexis Debat	2	3	5
Fred Halliday	5	0	5
Ronald Payne	5	0	5
Charles Pena	2	3	5
Magnus Ranstorp	0	5	5
Jonathan Stevenson	4	1	5
Robert Baer	4	0	4
Patrick Clawson	4	0	4
Roger Cressey	4	0	4
David Franz	0	4	4
Larry Johnson	2	2	4
Kevin O'Brien	3	1	4
Kevin Rosser	2	2	4
Jessica Stern	0	4	4
Jeane Kirkpatrick	2	1	3
Evan Kohlmann	1	2	3
Daniel Pipes	0	3	3
Olivier Roy	2	1	3
Garth Witty	3	0	3
Bob Ayers	1	1	2
Daniel Benjamin	1	1	2
Daniel Byman	1	1	2
Jonathan Evans	2	0	2
Brian Jenkins	2	0	2
Hugh McManners	0	2	2
Kyle Olson	2	0	2
Mike Ackerman	0	1	1
Fouad Ajami	0	1	1
Graham Allison	0	1	1
Jillian Becker	1	0	1
Peter Bergen	0	1	1
Peter Brenchley	1	0	1
Michael Chandler	0	1	1
Noam Chomsky	0	1	1
Richard Clutterbuck	1	0	1
Mohammed Darif	0	1	1
Avi Dichter	0	1	1
John Downing	1	0	1
Lawrence Eagleburger	1	0	1
Anoushiravan Ehteshami	0	1	1
Jonathan Fighel	0	1	1
Ahmet Gul	1	0	1
Roger Hardy	0	1	1
Donald Henderson	0	1	1
Rita Katz	0	1	1
Neil Livingstone	1	0	1
Eammonn Mallie	1	0	1
Michael Moodie	0	1	1
Stephen Morse	0	1	1
Laurie Mylroie	0	1	1
Peter R Neumann	1	0	1
Jesus Nunez	0	1	1
Michael Osterholm	0	1	1
Alexis Papahelas	0	1	1
Paul Pillar	1	0	1
Julio Ribiero	0	1	1
Gabrielle Rifkind	1	0	1
Marc Sageman	0	1	1
Alex P. Schmid	1	0	1
Asim Siddiqui	0	1	1
Alexander Silke	1	0	1
Michael Swetnam	1	0	1
Stephen Teret	1	0	1
Jonathan Tonge	1	0	1
Frances Townsend	1	0	1
Clive Walker	1	0	1
Simon Wessely	1	0	1
Clive Williams	0	1	1

Analysis

A separate page: Terrorexpertise:UK Television List Analysis includes a table displaying whether the top 30 experts from this list have affiliations to any (1) academic institutions (2) private Security/Intelligence firms (3) government or law enforcement agencies (4) military or intelligence services (4) private think-tanks or research institute and (5) the media. It also includes some analysis of this data.