Newsround - soon to be a victim of Creative Future?

Byker Grove was an early victim of Creative Future (see blog 10 June 2006). But will the BBC's catchall policy also be responsible for the demise of Newsround?

Rather than see Newsround become an inclusive and diverse-friendly programme some at the BBC would prefer to bin it.

The BBC is a homophobic organisation in its management ethos, and probably has been since John Reith founded it in the last century. Reith was known for his strict Presbyterian values - although his diaries indicate he was something of a hypocrite.

Today also, people at the helm make no secret of their religious beliefs. Both the director-general Mark Thompson and his deputy Mark Byford are known for their Catholicism. David Cox says, in a New Statesman article, Mark Thompson is a deeply religious man who attends a traditionalist church every Sunday.

More soon about Creative Future.