French TV channel reprimanded for satirizing Pope

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French TV channel reprimanded for satirizing Pope
Wed May 11, 2005 10:16 AM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - France's media council has sharply reprimanded a private television channel for satirizing Pope Benedict as "Adolf II" and saying he blessed Catholics "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Third Reich."

The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) warned Canal Plus that it faced stiff monetary fines if it again violated a rule to "respect the different political, cultural and religious sensitivities of the public," a CSA spokesman said on Wednesday.

The popular Canal Plus news satire show "Les Guignols de l'Info" (The News Clowns), which uses puppets to spoof current events, aired the offending program on April 20, one day after German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope.

The company's management subsequently apologized, but a closed-door meeting of the CSA on Tuesday decided to take the unusual step of putting it on notice -- a rare step in the 17 years that the sometimes scathing program has been on the air.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=televisionNews&storyID=8457136

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[bennywhale]

1. The choosing of the pope sounded to me like the beginning of a bad joke

A crap comedian says

"Right, theres a Jewish guy, an African Guy, and a member of the Hitler Youth, and they're deciding who should be pope........"

[Cobalt Violet]

2. I miss read it. I thought it said "sanitizing the pope".

That'll be the day.

[David__77]

3. Ratzinger deserves much worse.

He's a died in the wool reactionary and deserves ridicule and mockery--and stiff political opposition. They want to preserve theocracy wherever they can and extend it to other places. They oppose people and their fight for freedom.