CanWest faces heat over 'Popetown'
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand's Roman Catholic church
asked its followers Friday to boycott Canadian-owned broadcaster
CanWest for screening the cartoon Popetown, which it says portrays
greed, inappropriate sexuality and bestiality in the Vatican.
Television channel C4 launched Popetown on June 8 even though the
program's developers, Britain's BBC, decided it was too risky for its
offbeat BBC3 TV station in Great Britain. In the show the Pope is
"depicted as a cretinous, dirty, spoiled brat," the church said in a
statement.
It added that the program also "implies a predilection on the part of
one Vatican-based priest for exotic animals in a way that suggests
moral degeneration of an appalling kind."
The bishops urged the nation's 500,000 Roman Catholics to boycott C4 -
which is owned by Canadian broadcaster CanWest - along with its TV3
affiliate and seven CanWest radio networks.
The church has also asked businesses to pull their advertising from
CanWest channels, the New Zealand Press Association quoted Catholic
Communications director Lyndsay Freer as saying.
"They think it's OK to offend Catholics," Freer said. "We want our
people to make their complaints and their opinions heard."
http://jusinkase.blogspot.com/2005/07/canwest-faces-heat-over-popetown.html
hows this for a debatable point, is it all right, for the media to
demonize the Pope for what ever reason?
JK
http://jusinkase.blogspot.com
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