{"id":56520,"date":"2016-11-30T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/is_the_bbc_in_danger_of_failing_to_take_religion_seriously\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:00:08","slug":"is_the_bbc_in_danger_of_failing_to_take_religion_seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56520","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Is the BBC in danger of failing to take Religion seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior BBC presenter has criticised the corporation&#8217;s attitude to religious programming in a rare intervention by an insider.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Bolton of Radio 4&#8217;s Feedback says: &#8220;Just six months after the Archbishop of Canterbury called in these very pages for broadcasters to take religion seriously, it seems the BBC is doing anything but.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bolton spoke out after the BBC decided to drop the post of Head of Religion and place corporate responsiblity for religion and ethics under Factual Scotland &#8220;to simplify the existing mangement structure&#8221;. James Purnell, the former Labour minister who is head of radio and education at the BBC, is to take responsibility for religion as part of his remit.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Radio Times, Bolton says this will threaten the coverage of religion on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/is.the.bbc.in.danger.of.failing.to.take.religion.seriously\/102312.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior BBC presenter has criticised the corporation&#8217;s attitude to religious programming in a rare intervention by an insider. Roger Bolton of Radio 4&#8217;s Feedback says: &#8220;Just six months after the Archbishop of Canterbury called in these very pages for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56520\">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":[39,50,175,199,168,133,89,93,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-media","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56520","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=56520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}