{"id":108943,"date":"2022-01-20T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108943"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:18:32","slug":"premier-the-bishop-of-ripon-speaks-up-against-government-plans-to-abolish-bbc-licence-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108943","title":{"rendered":"(Premier) The Bishop of Ripon speaks up against government plans to abolish BBC licence fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop from the Church of England has spoken out about government plans to abolish the BBC licence fee.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, the Bishop of Ripon has praised the Corporation\u2019s role in developing greater understanding of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Hartley is a Chair of the Sandford St Martin Trust that promotes \u2018excellence in broadcasting about religion ethics and spirituality.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She has expressed deep concern about Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries statement about possibly abolishing the licence fee after 2027. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Hartley, issued a statement on the Sandford St Martin Trust website, she said: &#8220;It is with concern that we at the Trust have read reports that the BBC is to be hit by a funding freeze and that the culture secretary Nadine Dorries is anticipating the abolition of the licence fee after 2027.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/bishop-speaks-up-against-government-plans-to-abolish-bbc-licence-fee\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet the next Bishop of Ripon, Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AQ6gyxGwNY\">https:\/\/t.co\/AQ6gyxGwNY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f0nIPxP1wy\">pic.twitter.com\/f0nIPxP1wy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Diocese of Leeds (@LeedsCofE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeedsCofE\/status\/928608997271396353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bishop from the Church of England has spoken out about government plans to abolish the BBC licence fee. Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, the Bishop of Ripon has praised the Corporation\u2019s role in developing greater understanding of religion. Dr Hartley is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108943\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,199,168,89,93,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-movies-television","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108947,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108943\/revisions\/108947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}