Found as part of a diary article on the guardian website:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,9176,1056436,00.html
Sex-mad BBC
Tonight, when Channel 4 is giving us an investigation into the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly, the BBC's Panorama will be devoted to the question of sex abuse among the Catholic clergy.
This move by the BBC has angered the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham who last week launched a fierce attack on the Corporation, accusing it of an anti-Catholic bias, a charge that was given wide coverage by the Daily Telegraph which, as it happens, is owned and edited by Catholics.
This is to miss the point. The BBC is no more anti-Catholic than most of the rest of the media, which are not just anti-Catholic but anti-Christianity and anti-religion in general. The BBC, just like the tabloid newspapers, is interested in sex and especially sex abuse and paedophiles. Any story featuring any of the above will be guaranteed prominence on the news bulletins. If it can be shown that priests are involved, so much the better. The Catholics are not the only ones to suffer as a result of these priorities. It was not so long ago, when the nation was caught up in the controversy of whether or not we should go to war in Iraq, that Panorama devoted itself to the exposure of sex abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses.
What should be attacked is not so much the BBC's bias against the Church, which undoubtedly exists, but its bias in favour of downmarket, sex-flavoured sensationalism at a time when there are a lot of more serious matters to discuss.
I didn't find the Panorama program 'sex-flavoured sensationalism'. It was an important issue that needed exposing.
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Ignored One.