BBC, NY Times and Guardian Appear to Have Stage-Managed Muslim Anti-Pope Hatred
Ratzinger, now Benedict, has been favorite Catholic target of liberal media for years
by Hilary White

LONDON, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The international furor over the Pope’s comments at Regensburg last week appears to have begun through a series of carefully stage-managed media reports

Tracing the media coverage from the day of the Pope’s speech in Regensburg, Germany, a distinct shift in approach, what media analysts call a “meme,” of “Islamic outrage”, is clearly traceable starting with the BBC’s coverage three days later.

The day after the speech, Wednesday the 13th, the Pope’s lecture elicited little response from apparently bored secular journalists who had little interest in what was considered his “obscure” and “academic” points on the relationship between religious belief and the secular world.

Catholic news sources who reported the day after the lecture were also quiet. “Pope spends quiet afternoon at home with brother,” was the leading headline at Catholic World Report.

On Thursday the 14th, however, under the headline “Pope's speech stirs Muslim anger,” the BBC began with a report that police in Kashmir had seized newspapers carrying coverage of the pope’s speech in order “to prevent tension.” The BBC’s coverage did not include any quote from the Indian-administered Kashmiri police force. the rest

ABC News Compares Pope to a Dog
September 19, 2006
by Jim Kouri -

THE VATICAN -- In an ABC News story by its Rome correspondent Martin Seemungal, Pope Benedict XVI was compared to an attack dog -- the Rottweiler -- during Seemungal's extraordinarily biased coverage of the Muslim uprising over the Pontiff's recent comments. At first reading, I had to remind myself I wasn't on the Al-Jazeera News website.

ABC News said: "Pope Benedict, nicknamed "God's Rottweiler" because of his conservative views, staked out a much harder line right from the beginning." Of course, ABC's reporter doesn't reveal to the reader who gave Benedict that name -- denizens of liberal-left newsrooms, that's who. If conservative views make you a Rottweiler, what do liberal views make you? A French Poodle?

Can one imagine ABC News reporters calling one of the top Islamic holy men "Allah's Doberman?" Not those cowards. They'd hide under their beds at the first sign of Muslim hostility directed at them. the rest