Posted on 06/09/2010 10:12:15 AM PDT by NYer
I don’t know whether this is mainly for your Last Acceptable Prejudice file or your Throwing a Nutty file … from CNA. My emphases and comments:
Catholics denounce slated ‘documentary’ on Pope by homosexual activist
London, England, Jun 8, 2010 / 01:07 am (CNA).- A homosexual activist [deviant, and therefore in liberal eyes well-qualified…] and Vatican protestor in the U.K. is slated to make what he calls a “factual” documentary on the Holy Father, [It will be truly unbiased, I bet.] which is set to air just before the upcoming papal trip. One critic of the proposed film called it further evidence of England being “a profoundly anti-Catholic country.” [What a very sad statement that is, consider that the soul of England is really, ought really to be, Catholic. Aidan Nichols’ book The Realm needs wide distribution in England.]
Peter Tatchell, a noted gay activist and leader of the group Protest the Pope, [yawn] is being sponsored by the U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 to make an hour long film on the Holy Father that will air before the papal visit this September.
“My aim is to make a robustly factual [What does that mean? What is "robustly factual"?] program that explores the Pope’s personal, religious and political journey since the 1930s, as well as the motives and effects of his controversial policies,” [Controversial from which point of view?] said Tatchell in a statement on his website.
“I intend to ensure that we hear the voices of the Pope’s defenders, as well as his critics,” [When someone has to reassure that the Pope will get fair treatment, you know he isn’t going to get fair treatment.] he went on. “I would be like to interview the Pope himself. It would be ideal for Pope Benedict to be able to explain himself in his own words. But I doubt that I will be granted an audience.”
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 released a statement in support of Tatchell, and the company Juniper TV that is producing the film.
“Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, a long-term critic of the Papacy, [... a true heavyweight, he….] will challenge Pope Benedict XVI’s beliefs and positions on a range of issues – including condoms, homosexuality and fertility treatment – and examine the impact his policies have had on both the developing and Western world,” Channel 4 wrote in a general statement. “The program will give voice to a range of views on the Pope – featuring interviews with both critics and supporters.”
Ralph Lee, head of Specialist Factual programming [Now that is worthy of George Orwell.] at Channel Four, said on June 4 that the papal visit in September “provides an ideal opportunity to examine the impact of Benedict XVI after five years in office.”
“In keeping with Channel 4’s remit to provide a platform for diverse and alternative perspectives,” [read "liberal perspectives"] he added, “equality campaigner Peter Tatchell will assess the effect of the current Pope’s teachings throughout the world and the conflict between some of his values and those held by modern Britain.”
Several critics of the slated documentary have denounced the film as “hostile” and “polemical.”
On June 7, London’s Daily Telegraph reported former conservative Member of Parliament Anne Widdecombe as saying, “I think this will confirm the view that there probably already is in the Vatican that this is a profoundly anti-Catholic country.” [It is less important to state the obvious about what the view is in the Vatican than to point out the anti-Catholic bias to the English establishment themselves.]
“I wouldn’t call this the right thing for any serious broadcaster to do, but they’re doing it for the publicity, they’re doing it to stir up controversy,” charged Widdecombe, a Catholic convert.
“Mr. Tatchell certainly won’t be sympathetic to his subject, so what’s the point of doing it? It won’t be skeptical, it will be hostile.”
The Telegraph also quoted Catholic writer Christina Odone, who said that Tatchell himself “would be the first to admit that he is no authority on the subject.”
“And perhaps it would be good, rather than have some polemical, knee-jerk reaction to the Pope if Channel 4 would be interested in actually shedding light on a figure who is so important, and so often misinterpreted and misunderstood – and of whom more needs to be known,” Odone added.
Catholic composer James MacMillian, whose music is rumored to be performed at some of the Masses during the Pope’s visit, denounced Channel 4 and other media outlets in the country.
“There is nothing surprising in the continued frantic jumping up and down [great!] by the Guardian/Channel 4/BBC axis in opposition to the Pope,” he observed.
“Their venom is now so repetitive that it has lost any potency it once had. Frankly, people are getting bored with them.”
I am sure the taxpayers of the UK are thrilled to be funding this crap
Pope-phobia!
Channel 4 is not the BBC. It seems even farther to the Left.
Age of consent examined in Channel 4 sex series
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8/6/2003 | Tom Leonard
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/958802/posts
Channel 4 is to examine whether the age of consent should be lowered to 14 in a series of programmes devoted to teenage sex, it said yesterday.The Adult At 14 season will offer a “realistic examination of teenage sexuality” in a succession of programmes highlighting the increasingly sexualised world in which children grow up.
In one episode, Age Of Consent, the presenter, Miranda Sawyer, argues that sex below the age of 16 should be legalised.
The Hamburg Cell - British TV movie sympathetic to hijackers of 9/11
Channel 4 in Britian
Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203701/posts
On Thursday at 9pm, Britain’s Channel 4 will air a docu-drama retelling the story of 9/11 through the view of one of the hijackers. In the previews for this movie, a hijacker is shown to be torn between his love and his love for jihad. I think this is a horrible idea as it will end up portraying the hijacker in a sympathetic light. At some point, the viewer will show some compassion towards the hijacker who helped murder 3000 innocent people.Would anyone recommend a docu-drama to show the relationship with Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun during the final days in the bunker? How about Lord Haw-Haw’s last days Henrich Himmler and his wife?
UK drama paints fictional assassination of Bush
Reuters ^ | August 31, 2006 | Adam Pasick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693044/posts
British public broadcaster Channel 4 is courting controversy with what it calls a “shockingly real” drama about the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.“Death of a President,” shot in the form of a documentary examining the assassination, will use a blend of archival footage and computer-generated special effects to portray Bush in October 2007 arriving in Chicago during an anti-war rally.
In the film, Bush is killed by a sniper, and the investigation quickly focuses on a Syrian-born man. It will air in October on Channel 4’s More4 digital channel, as well as at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film
The Guardian ^ | July 19, 2008 | Owen Gibson,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047988/posts
Channel 4 misrepresented some of the world's leading climate scientists in a controversial documentary that claimed global warming was a conspiracy and a fraud, the UK’s media regulator will rule next week.In a long-awaited judgment following a 15-month inquiry, Ofcom is expected to censure the network over its treatment of some scientists in the programme, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which sparked outcry from environmentalists.
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One source said both sides would be able to claim victory after a bitter dispute that has raged in newspapers and online since the programme, billed as “a definitive response” to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, was first broadcast in March last year.
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Channel 4 justified the broadcast by saying it was a useful contribution to a timely debate, arguing that it had a tradition for iconoclastic programming and had also aired programmes supporting the case for man-made climate change.
Misleading and defamatory: Channel 4 accused over documentary on Qur’an
The Guardian ^ | July 28, 2008 | Riazat Butt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052363/posts
It was described as an “exemplary piece of programme making” by an award winning film-maker which launched a week of television coverage of Islam.But a Channel 4 documentary on the Qur’an has angered a group of leading Shia Muslim scholars, who have criticised it for making “seriously inaccurate statements” about their branch of the faith.
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The signatories to the letter were also angered by the apparent links made between Shiaism and violence, with scenes of Iranian Shias burning effigies, chanting anti-western slogans, and advocating acts of terror.
Ahmadinejad to give alternative Christmas message
Times Online ^ | December 24, 2008 | Joanna Sugden
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2153815/posts
Jewish groups were up in arms today when it was revealed that Channel 4’s “alternative” Christmas Day broadcast is to be delivered by President Ahmadinejad of Iran.Mr Ahmadinejad’s speech will go out at 7.15pm, four hours after the Queen's traditional Christmas Day message is broadcast on the main channels. His message is a spiritual one but includes some more nakedly political elements - including the implicit claim that if Jesus Christ were alive today, he would oppose US hegemony.
“If Christ was on Earth today undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers,” Mr Ahmadinejad will say in a speech to be shown in Farsi with English subtitles.
Government rebukes Channel 4 for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broadcast
Times Online (UK) ^ | December 26, 2008 | Patrick Foster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154557/posts
So Channel 4 airs a number of controverial documentaries and docudramas. But some, like the Climate Change "expose" are lone examples in a sea of PRO-Climate Change Legislation reports.
Same with one expose of one branch of radical Islam in the midst of a week of pro-Islam documentaries.
Do Christians EVER get a fair shake on Channel 4? Do they get to give a rebuke to Islam during Ramadan et al?
Channel 4 sounds like the worst excuse for TV ever, lol.
It still sounds like it is to the right of NPR.
I’m not Catholic, I’m not even religious, yet even I can see this is going to be a hit piece.
Your TV tax money at work, England.
Lowering the age of consent is a clear indicator of leftist bias. The Greens in Germany in the 70s were trying to get it lower than 14 IIRC. I’ve never heard of a conservative or right-wing organization advocating that.
IOW, on the whole there is a slight tendency for leftists to want to screw little girls.
Come on Catholics fund a documentary on the dangers of homosexual behavior. Push back. Do what the left does. Fund stealth organizations, fund scientists to do research supporting the church perspective. The church needs to be smart on these issues and fight back in such a way with arguments that will even persuade secular individuals.
Does Channel 4 get government money?
It came into being in the 1980s as I understand it.
And there is also Sky (or Sky News, which is like Fox) which I doubt gets British money.
Is there still an annual tv tax?
What is Poofter Tatchell’s screen-name on FR?
No, Channel 4 is a commercial channel, but everyone has to pay a TV tax if they own a TV (that funds the BBC stations). Channel 4 was considered the young, hip station and it is where most of the counter-culture, Leftist programming runs.
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Any wonder why leftists hate the Pope so much? Could it possibly be because the Catholic Church has not budged in its support of moral absolutes including marriage and life? Could that be why? Leftists/homosexuls tried their best by infiltrating the seminaries, having "rainbow sash" protests and the like, but no go! So many Protestant denominations have succumbed to the dark side (and many have not) that the leftists are outraged that the Catholic Church has not.
Great comments in red!
YES!!!!
ditto’s to what you said, lj.
Thank you!
Maelstorm’s idea, it NEEDS TO GET DONE!!!! On other issues as well.
FIGHT BACK! IT’S WHAT’S NEEDED!
C.S.Lewis said that courage is the test of all virtues and he is absolutely right. Without courage all virtures are useless.
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