{"id":617,"date":"2010-08-31T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2010-08-31T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:51:00","slug":"defending-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Defending the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Nick saying good and interesting things <a href=\"http:\/\/nickbaines.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/28\/banging-the-drum-for-the-bbc\/\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/why-i-am-conservative-and-what-i-mean.html\">From a conservative point of view<\/a>, what most strikes me is the confusion inherent in (what seems to be) the Tory perspective of seeking to get rid of the BBC in favour of &#8220;market forces&#8221;. This is idolatry of the first order, and actually a very good example of what conservatism is <i>against <\/i>&#8211; the destruction of an organic, entrenched, idiosyncratic, local and national institution in favour of some half-baked intellectual scheme and theory. I think there are problems with the BBC &#8211; not least <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/different-sort-of-bubble.html\">bubble thinking<\/a> &#8211; but it needs to be defended from the depradations of the Jacobins. <\/p>\n<p>Ah &#8211; forgot that <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/on-wanting-to-preserve-bbc.html\">I&#8217;ve written on this before<\/a> (at more length).<\/p>\n<p>PS I was looking for a .gif of &#8216;I love BBC&#8217; to stick on my sidebar, but can&#8217;t find one. Any hints?<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Nick saying good and interesting things here. From a conservative point of view, what most strikes me is the confusion inherent in (what seems to be) the Tory perspective of seeking to get rid of the BBC in favour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-9X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}