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Issues Facing Christians in the Media
 | Can you make compromises and keep your integrity? It's a daily pressure for many of us, with little time to think through the consequences. The news editor wants a story about miserable old people's homes, but after extensive interviews you can only find happy residents. You're on a week's trial. Do you tell him his story stinks or deliver what he wants? Your boss asks you to develop a new TV programme involving spiritualists. What do you do? These were two real examples tackled by the Issues Facing Christians in the Media stream. Facing the sack "With these new short contracts there's no time to build relationships," said radio and TV producer Rachel Phillips. "You can't tell the editor he's got it all wrong because you could be kicked out. This way of working doesn't make it easy to keep your integrity." Martin Booth, a former comedy writer and TV producer who is now Ofcom's religion specialist, spent a sleepless night in prayer trying to decide how to handle that request for a show about psychics. "The next morning I told my boss it was against my religious principles. He just said 'OK, fine'," said Mr Booth. Fallen world "But some days I come home and think I have done nothing with integrity. I rely on prayer and worship during the day to be cleansed, refreshed and to start again. I wrestle with integrity every day of my life. It's a fallen world. "We are employed to do a job. But if you can find a way to supply what editors want without doing something morally unacceptable it's OK. Sometimes you're happy and sometimes they are." It's not just journalists facing these issues, of course. The Rev Joel Edwards of the Evangelical Alliance has advised many confused Christians in different walks of life. "We need to liberate people on the front line to see compromise is a necessary tool," he said. "The trick is discerning when not to compromise." Elizabeth Hopkirk |
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