Lucy Frazer has called on the BBC boss to review language rules
Flying the Palestinian flag in Jewish areas could be a criminal offence, says BravermanSecretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lucy Frazer has spoken to the BBC about its reporting of Hamas The BBC is on a collision course with ministers after resisting mounting pressure to rip up language guidelines which advise staff against callingacts of terror carried out by a terrorist organisation
The Culture Secretary, who has launched a review into the future of the BBC licence fee, said editorial judgements were ultimately a matter for the broadcaster. Mr Davie is understood to have defended the BBC’s coverage of the Hamas attacks in the meeting and declined to commit to a formal review. The BBC said: “We have included contributors who have condemned the attackers as terrorists and we have reported that Hamas is designated as a terrorist group by many Western governments, including the UK.”
The Prime Minister led criticism of the BBC, saying of the attacks: “’This is not a time for equivocation, we should call it out for what it is.”. He said: “These are all terrorist attacks and I would urge you to reflect that in your reporting. Hamas is a terrorist organisation – these are not militants, they are terrorists.”
The BBC has admitted that a News channel interview with Refaat Alareer, a lecturer at Gaza’s Islamic University, whoThe BBC was approached for comment on the meeting between Mr Davie and Ms Frazer.
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