{"id":303332,"date":"2010-02-10T16:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11762"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:38:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:38:16","slug":"church-of-england-laments-drop-in-uk-religious-tv-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303332","title":{"rendered":"Church of England laments drop in UK religious TV programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A shopper looks at televisions in central London 2 March 2005\/Toby Melville<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Church of England voted on Wednesday to express “deep concern”<\/em> about a drop in religious programmes on British television but drew back from solely targeting the BBC for criticism.<\/p>\n

The Church’s General Synod, or parliament, had been asked by one of its members to pinpoint the publicly funded BBC for marginalising religion and treating religious shows on its non-core channels as “freak shows..”<\/em><\/p>\n

But the synod instead voted on an amendment which expressed its “deep concern about the overall reduction in religious broadcasting across British television in recent years.” <\/em>The member, Nigel Holmes, a former BBC producer, brought a private motion accusing the BBC of preferring natural history and gardening programmes to religious output, saying some in broadcasting assumed that religion lost audiences.<\/p>\n

Last year, it completely ignored the Christian significance of Good Friday, one of the holiest days in the Church’s calendar, he said. You can read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s it like in your country? Do the major broadcasters treat religious programming as “freak shows?”<\/p>\n

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A shopper looks at televisions in central London 2 March 2005\/Toby Melville The Church of England voted on Wednesday to express “deep concern” about a drop in religious programmes on British television but drew back from solely targeting the BBC for criticism. The Church’s General Synod, or parliament, had been asked by one of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}