TORONTO, July 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – With the vast majority of media outlets in Canada providing at least unbiased if not positive coverage on World Youth Day and the papal visit, Canada’s national public broadcaster the CBC is sticking out like a sore thumb. Inordinate time on news broadcasts is given to pro-abortion dissenters and those critical of Pope John Paul II. Special programming is being reserved for presentations of a tiny dissident group hosted in a Toronto Anglican parish which tonight plans to hold a ‘Mass’ presided over by an officially excommunicated ‘Catholic’ woman. Some of the WYD pilgrims who had access to television expressed disgust over the negative CBC reports that seem to have been created by “people who were on another planet” during Tuesday’s events.
The Canadian Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) blasted the publicly funded broadcaster for its coverage. CCRL President Dr. Thomas Langan told LifeSite: “It is rather a pity that the CBC cannot control its anti-Catholic tendencies for a mere week. The mothercorp has drudged up a group of anti-Catholics and dissidents who have broken fundamentally from the Church, though pretend to stay, to cause mischief. CBC does not offer equal time or even the courtesy of rebuttal to faithful Catholics attending World Youth Day. The critics’ exaggerations remain unanswered.”“Each CBC news story taken in isolation offers no voice of opposition. The CBC misleads viewers into believing that these people are Catholic. The powers that be at CBC are offering a disproportionate amount of coverage and sympathy to these self described disrupters.”“Even the Globe and Mail and National Post have the decency to offer faithful Catholics, if only for a few days, authentic Catholic voices.”“The fact of the matter is that the dissenters have already found a Church in Holy Trinity Anglican. It is clearly a place in which they can express and vent their status of victimhood. It is time that they admitted that there is a place for their collective chagrin and that place is a warm embrace in the arms of another denomination.” To express concerns to the CBC: Tony Burman Editor in Chief and Executive Director CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld P.O. Box 500, Station “A” Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6 [email protected] Canadians are especially being urged to contact their MPs to voice concerns about funding the obviously biased CBC: https://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/PostalCode.asp?Source+SM