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Check this article out, although i dont see riots & carnage happening as a result of this.
This is still a disgrace nonetheless & those ******s behind that show are going 2 hell.
South Park episode aired despite protest
February 23, 2006 - 11:19AM
Hundreds of Catholics and supporters held a protest vigil outside a New Zealand television station during its broadcast on Wednesday night of South Park's controversial Bloody Mary episode.
More than 200,000 viewers watched the program in which a Virgin Mary statue is depicted spurting menstrual blood into the face of the Pope - six times the US animated comedy's usual audience in New Zealand.
CanWest-owned broadcaster TV Works said it received hundreds of calls and emails before the program was broadcast on its free-to-air youth channel C4, about 85 per cent of them complaining about the episode's broadcast.
The company provoked the angry reaction after bringing forward the episode's screening from its original May schedule date, saying it wanted the public to make up its own mind about the controversy.
SBS Television in Australia has deferred its scheduled March 6 broadcast of the episode because of the worldwide controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
The Mohammed cartoons originally published in Denmark provoked violent protests by Muslims around the globe.
The Catholic Church in New Zealand said it intended to lodge a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
"In a secular society some people are not able to understand the depth of feeling, loyalty and love that others have towards those things that make them who they are - their culture, tradition, their religious faith or nationality," church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said.
"Freedom of speech has to be tempered with responsibility."
A lawyer for the group Catholic Action has written to the Attorney General complaining the episode was blasphemous libel which breached the Crimes Act.
TV Works chief operating officer Rick Friesen said a small number of advertisers had withdrawn their business but none withdrew commercials from Wednesday night's episode.
One placard held up by a protester said: "If it's good enough for Mary, let's show Rick's mum."
Television reviewers were underwhelmed by the satire of the Bloody Mary episode.
Frances Grant wrote in The New Zealand Herald that the show could have made its point without resorting to vulgarity.
"Surely those who should be offended most are the loyal South Park fans who were delivered at best only a mediocre episode," Grant wrote.
Jane Bowron of the Dominion Post wrote: "Watching the deeply unfunny and frankly, boring, episode of Bloody Mary won't have harvested C4 viewers, for the satire wasn't anywhere near clever enough and many of us were left, as Mr Friesen predicted, wondering what all the fuss was about."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/So...despite-protest/2006/02/23/1140563895459.html
This is still a disgrace nonetheless & those ******s behind that show are going 2 hell.
South Park episode aired despite protest
February 23, 2006 - 11:19AM
Hundreds of Catholics and supporters held a protest vigil outside a New Zealand television station during its broadcast on Wednesday night of South Park's controversial Bloody Mary episode.
More than 200,000 viewers watched the program in which a Virgin Mary statue is depicted spurting menstrual blood into the face of the Pope - six times the US animated comedy's usual audience in New Zealand.
CanWest-owned broadcaster TV Works said it received hundreds of calls and emails before the program was broadcast on its free-to-air youth channel C4, about 85 per cent of them complaining about the episode's broadcast.
The company provoked the angry reaction after bringing forward the episode's screening from its original May schedule date, saying it wanted the public to make up its own mind about the controversy.
SBS Television in Australia has deferred its scheduled March 6 broadcast of the episode because of the worldwide controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
The Mohammed cartoons originally published in Denmark provoked violent protests by Muslims around the globe.
The Catholic Church in New Zealand said it intended to lodge a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
"In a secular society some people are not able to understand the depth of feeling, loyalty and love that others have towards those things that make them who they are - their culture, tradition, their religious faith or nationality," church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said.
"Freedom of speech has to be tempered with responsibility."
A lawyer for the group Catholic Action has written to the Attorney General complaining the episode was blasphemous libel which breached the Crimes Act.
TV Works chief operating officer Rick Friesen said a small number of advertisers had withdrawn their business but none withdrew commercials from Wednesday night's episode.
One placard held up by a protester said: "If it's good enough for Mary, let's show Rick's mum."
Television reviewers were underwhelmed by the satire of the Bloody Mary episode.
Frances Grant wrote in The New Zealand Herald that the show could have made its point without resorting to vulgarity.
"Surely those who should be offended most are the loyal South Park fans who were delivered at best only a mediocre episode," Grant wrote.
Jane Bowron of the Dominion Post wrote: "Watching the deeply unfunny and frankly, boring, episode of Bloody Mary won't have harvested C4 viewers, for the satire wasn't anywhere near clever enough and many of us were left, as Mr Friesen predicted, wondering what all the fuss was about."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/So...despite-protest/2006/02/23/1140563895459.html
