{"id":20236,"date":"2017-12-20T01:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/20\/bbc-to-increase-religious-coverage-to-better-represent-all-faiths\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T01:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:57:38","slug":"bbc-to-increase-religious-coverage-to-better-represent-all-faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20236","title":{"rendered":"BBC to increase religious coverage to better represent all faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review reportedly finds religious people \u2018poorly presented or satirised\u2019, and suggests programming that \u2018better reflects the UK\u2019The BBC is set to increase its coverage of religions after a year-long review found that people of all faiths were \u201coften absent, poorly presented or satirised\u201d, according to reports.The corporation\u2019s religion and ethics review, which is out on Wednesday, proposes a variety of improvements such as including religious themes in the broadcaster\u2019s popular dramas and soaps on both TV and radio, more documentaries covering religious and ethical issues being commissioned and for popular programmes such as The One Show to celebrate Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Jewish holy days. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/dec\/20\/bbc-to-increase-religious-coverage-to-better-represent-all-faiths\" target=\"_blank\">BBC to increase religious coverage to better represent all faiths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review reportedly finds religious people \u2018poorly presented or satirised\u2019, and suggests programming that \u2018better reflects the UK\u2019The BBC is set to increase its coverage of religions after a year-long review found that people of all faiths were \u201coften absent, poorly presented or satirised\u201d, according to reports.The corporation\u2019s religion and ethics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}