Post by Teddy Bear on Dec 8, 2013 22:44:15 GMT
The BBC will find every excuse to highlight the features and issues that fits its agenda. But as we've seen all too often, when they want to pretend they're fair and impartial, they will sacrifice those that they should also be boosting - if they were really fair and impartial.
What an asinine decision, typical of what we've come to expect from the BBC.
Using the same logic they can never show a programme on something going on in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland either.
Idiots!
What an asinine decision, typical of what we've come to expect from the BBC.
Using the same logic they can never show a programme on something going on in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland either.
Idiots!
BBC show dropped feature on heritage awards 'for being English only'
BBC1's The One Show approached English Heritage about covering the Angel Awards but pulled out because they did not relate to the rest of the UK
By Sam Marsden
A flagship BBC television programme pulled out of plans to feature awards celebrating local efforts to save England’s historic buildings because they did not represent the whole of Britain.
Producers from The One Show, which is broadcast on BBC1 on weekday evenings and often draws more than five million viewers, were said to have been “very keen” to make a film about last year’s English Heritage Angel Awards.
However, the item was later dropped on the grounds that the awards only related to England and so did not fit in with the programme’s UK-wide remit.
An English Heritage spokesman said: "The One Show was very keen and did consider it very seriously, but they felt that because their particular
remit is to cover the whole nation, it wouldn't be appropriate for them."
A BBC source said the decision to drop the item from The One Show was a “routine” editorial judgment.
Conor Burns, a Conservative MP who sits on the Commons culture, media and sport committee, said there was a misunderstanding among BBC executives about how people outside the “metropolitan London elite” viewed their national identities.
He said: “It always strikes me that the BBC’s output has disproportionate coverage of the cultures and national identities of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
“The one aspect of our national story that people seem to be scared of is a discussion of England and Englishness.
“I think it is born out of a misplaced paranoia and a desire not to offend. My feeling is that people from Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have no problem with other people celebrating their identity in the way that they celebrate their own.”
Mr Burns, who was himself born in Northern Ireland, also suggested that the BBC was “absolutely paranoid” about issues of national identity in the run-up to next year’s Scottish independence referendum.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, said: “There is almost deep embarrassment about anything that is English. I think that organisations that behave like this are very out of touch with public opinion.
“There’s a growing awareness and pride in being English. They should have been on The One Show. The One Show and the BBC have got Englishness wrong. It’s time they grew up and realised that there is nothing wrong with being English.”
The English Heritage Angel Awards were founded by Lord Lloyd Webber in 2011 to recognise the efforts of people around the country in conserving and rescuing local historic buildings and sites.
In their first year the awards, which are supported by the Telegraph, were the subject of six short films broadcast by BBC2’s The Culture Show.
English Heritage commissioned its own films about the projects shortlisted for the awards last year and this year, which can be viewed on its website.
Organisers have been contacted by several production companies interested in making programmes about next year’s awards, but they need a broadcaster to get involved as well.
The English Heritage spokesman said: “We would love a channel to get behind this and commission a proper series on the Angel Awards because we feel that these wonderful stories about people restoring the country’s heritage deserve to be celebrated.”
The role of English Heritage is fulfilled elsewhere in the UK by Historic Scotland, Cadw in Wales and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
A BBC spokesman said: "The One Show was in talks with English Heritage about this but on this occasion decided not to proceed.
“We have referenced their excellent Angel Awards on air in the past and would be delighted to do so again.”
BBC1's The One Show approached English Heritage about covering the Angel Awards but pulled out because they did not relate to the rest of the UK
By Sam Marsden
A flagship BBC television programme pulled out of plans to feature awards celebrating local efforts to save England’s historic buildings because they did not represent the whole of Britain.
Producers from The One Show, which is broadcast on BBC1 on weekday evenings and often draws more than five million viewers, were said to have been “very keen” to make a film about last year’s English Heritage Angel Awards.
However, the item was later dropped on the grounds that the awards only related to England and so did not fit in with the programme’s UK-wide remit.
An English Heritage spokesman said: "The One Show was very keen and did consider it very seriously, but they felt that because their particular
remit is to cover the whole nation, it wouldn't be appropriate for them."
A BBC source said the decision to drop the item from The One Show was a “routine” editorial judgment.
Conor Burns, a Conservative MP who sits on the Commons culture, media and sport committee, said there was a misunderstanding among BBC executives about how people outside the “metropolitan London elite” viewed their national identities.
He said: “It always strikes me that the BBC’s output has disproportionate coverage of the cultures and national identities of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
“The one aspect of our national story that people seem to be scared of is a discussion of England and Englishness.
“I think it is born out of a misplaced paranoia and a desire not to offend. My feeling is that people from Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have no problem with other people celebrating their identity in the way that they celebrate their own.”
Mr Burns, who was himself born in Northern Ireland, also suggested that the BBC was “absolutely paranoid” about issues of national identity in the run-up to next year’s Scottish independence referendum.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, said: “There is almost deep embarrassment about anything that is English. I think that organisations that behave like this are very out of touch with public opinion.
“There’s a growing awareness and pride in being English. They should have been on The One Show. The One Show and the BBC have got Englishness wrong. It’s time they grew up and realised that there is nothing wrong with being English.”
The English Heritage Angel Awards were founded by Lord Lloyd Webber in 2011 to recognise the efforts of people around the country in conserving and rescuing local historic buildings and sites.
In their first year the awards, which are supported by the Telegraph, were the subject of six short films broadcast by BBC2’s The Culture Show.
English Heritage commissioned its own films about the projects shortlisted for the awards last year and this year, which can be viewed on its website.
Organisers have been contacted by several production companies interested in making programmes about next year’s awards, but they need a broadcaster to get involved as well.
The English Heritage spokesman said: “We would love a channel to get behind this and commission a proper series on the Angel Awards because we feel that these wonderful stories about people restoring the country’s heritage deserve to be celebrated.”
The role of English Heritage is fulfilled elsewhere in the UK by Historic Scotland, Cadw in Wales and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.
A BBC spokesman said: "The One Show was in talks with English Heritage about this but on this occasion decided not to proceed.
“We have referenced their excellent Angel Awards on air in the past and would be delighted to do so again.”