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The UK Culture Secretary has said she lobbied the BBC during a private board meeting to refer to Hamas as “terrorists” in its news coverage.
Lucy Frazer, who has previously said publicly that the corporation should use the term when referring to the group, was put under pressure this morning at a Culture, Media & Sport Committee hearing by committee member John Nicolson over the meeting with BBC head honchos including the Director General that took place late last year.
Nicolson quoted people who attended the meeting and told him they had been “baffled” by Frazer’s insistence to eschew discussing issues like the licence fee settlement and instead continue to “repeat points about Gaza.” “I am told you kept coming back to it,” said Nicolson.
Frazer stressed that a range of points were discussed at the meeting including the license fee settlement but recalled urging the BBC to change its tack on Hamas.
“We discussed the position of the BBC not referring to Hamas as ‘terrorists’,” she said. “I put points to the BBC in a private meeting about something I had said publicly about the reasons why I thought their guidance allowed them to refer to Hamas as ‘terrorists’, and I put forward a number of points as to why. I had previously asked officials whether it was appropriate to do that and I told the BBC I might raise it at the meeting.”
Under pressure from multiple senior figures in government, including Foreign Secretary David Cameron as recently as last week, the BBC has repeatedly stuck to the line of avoiding labeling Hamas “terrorists” and only using the term when it is being quoted. World Affairs Editor John Simpson has previously said it is a “loaded word” and is “simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to
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