Everyone knows that the BBC has an anti-Christian bias. It’s obvious. Even its own research says so. Or does it? Recent reports would have us believe that the viewing public perceives the BBC as having a bias against the Christian faith. One such report was posted by the online Christian Today – a website that generally takes a conservative theological outlook on matters. Another was posted by the Daily Mail in its online edition on 1st June.

Dig a little deeper into the detail, however, and the story doesn’t quite stack up as reported. The reliable British Religion in Numbers blog did some research and found that the survey referred to was not a ‘representative survey of the national population’ but that those who replied were ‘entirely self-selecting’. Many respondents did indeed believe that the BBC is biased against Christians but they were not necessarily representative of British people. So … the facts are thus – some people believe the BBC to be biased but we have no idea whether this is the view of the general population.

In a separate report on BBC bias ‘veteran broadcaster’ Peter Sissons (in his serialised autobiography in the Daily Mail) said, ‘[In the BBC] Islam must not be offended at any price, although Christians are fair game because they do nothing about it if they are offended’. What he meant, of course, was that Christians don’t march on the streets and burn effigies of the BBC’s Director General. What we do seem to do, however, is distort dodgy surveys for our own gain in the media.

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