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UK Culture Secretary Says She Lobbied BBC To Change Policy On Calling Hamas “Terrorists” During Private Board Meeting
Lucy Frazer, Culture Secretary, has said she lobbied the BBC to call Hamas "terrorists," and also talked GB News & AI
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. BBC News execs have previously admitted that the war, which has so far claimed the lives of an estimated 40,000 people and has this week seen a warrant issued for the arrest of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, has been difficult to cover due to its “asymmetric nature.” Ofcom this week began the process to sanction the network after it once again breached the regulator’s impartiality code, this time over a People’s Forum in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was questioned by a live studio audience.
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