Media has turned its back on religion – Adrian Chiles

Media has turned its back on religion – Adrian Chiles

BBC broadcaster Adrian Chiles has complained that the media has come to see religion only in terms of fanaticism and turned its back on millions of ordinary worshippers of all faiths.

“Jesus said, ‘The meek will inherit the Earth.’ Well, they might do but they get no press along the way at all, they’re completely forgotten,” Chiles told The Independent.

“I’m not just talking about Christians, I’m talking about [all religions],” he said.

The football presenter also complained that his new show, which had the working title Holy Med, had been replaced by the less religious-sounding My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles.

“The fourth word in it is ‘God’. It’s as though they think everyone will have lost their remote control,” the presenter said of the series which opens with him saying “I believe in God”, and in which he spends time with Christians, Muslims and Jews.