{"id":3509,"date":"2009-03-30T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:44:33","slug":"rowan-offers-advice-to-the-bbc-the-pot-calling-the-kettle-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-offers-advice-to-the-bbc-the-pot-calling-the-kettle-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan offers advice to the BBC: the pot calling the kettle black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1165749\/Archbishop-warns-BBC-neglect-Christians-muslim-tipped-religious-supremo.html\" target=\"_blank\">ignoring Christians<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr Rowan Williams had a meeting at Lambeth Palace with director general Mark Thompson in which he said the corporation should not ignore its Christian audience.<\/p>\n<p>The talks came at a time when some senior figures are worried about signs that the BBC is more interested in promoting minority faiths than in broadcasting Christian programming or teachings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rowan is an expert in this area: he himself is well versed in ignoring his Christian audience, preferring, instead, to pontificate on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/article-23436203-details\/Adoption+of+Islamic+Sharia+law+in+Britain+is+%27unavoidable%27,+says+Archbishop+of+Canterbury\/article.do\" target=\"_blank\">virtues of sharia law<\/a>, the evils of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/2351\" target=\"_blank\">global warming<\/a> and who to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/mar\/09\/economy-recession-religion-rowan\" target=\"_blank\">blame<\/a> for the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly what is needed at the BBC is a series of Indaba groups to continue the conversation and listening. As they discern their way forward. Rowan could lead it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan on ignoring Christians: Dr Rowan Williams had a meeting at Lambeth Palace with director general Mark Thompson in which he said the corporation should not ignore its Christian audience. The talks came at a time when some senior figures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-offers-advice-to-the-bbc-the-pot-calling-the-kettle-black\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2059,2241],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bishops-gone-wild","tag-bishops-gone-wild","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}