{"id":44484,"date":"2014-06-07T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/get_rel-_bbc_veteran_edward_stourton_you_know_the_press_just_doesnt_get_rel\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T21:01:16","slug":"get_rel-_bbc_veteran_edward_stourton_you_know_the_press_just_doesnt_get_rel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44484","title":{"rendered":"(Get Rel.) BBC veteran Edward Stourton: You know, the press just doesn\u2019t get religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC journalist Edward Stourton has said Britain\u2019s lack of appreciation for the importance of religion across the world damages its news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Stourton, presenter on Radio 4\u201d\u00b2s religious programme Sunday, believes British journalists have a \u201cblind spot\u201d\u009d when it comes to religion, meaning coverage can be \u201cskewed\u201d\u009d. He highlighted coverage of the Ukraine crisis, the Middle East and Boko Haram in Nigeria as examples of stories which would be covered better with more understanding of religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that there is a problem with British culture \u201d\u00a6 in the way that we treat religion as a sort of curious \u201d\u02dcghetto\u2019-like thing,\u201d\u009d he told Press Gazette.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/bbc-veteran-you-know-the-press-just-doesnt-get-religion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC journalist Edward Stourton has said Britain\u2019s lack of appreciation for the importance of religion across the world damages its news coverage. Stourton, presenter on Radio 4\u201d\u00b2s religious programme Sunday, believes British journalists have a \u201cblind spot\u201d\u009d when it comes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44484\">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":[39,50,199,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484","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=44484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}