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Is the BBC upset that the new pope is not progressive?

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    mossy2103mossy2103 Posts: 84,308
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    Watching the build up to the voting on the papal elections, the BBC was asking every other guest speaker whether the new pope should be progressive?

    Translated : will they support gay marriage, be allowed to wear condoms and allow women bishops?

    The newly elected pope is very much entrenched in the old teachings but is very much focused on helping the poor and oppressed.

    Is the BBC with its hidden agenda, likely to be upset by the result?
    So what is the BBC's hidden agenda then?

    Or are they simply asking the questions that many people (especially Catholics) might be asking?

    And maybe it's you with the (less than) hidden agenda.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,074
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    Who really know what their hidden agenda is at the BBC but they don't mind planting the odd stooge at Question Time
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292995/Question-Time-How-Labour-Party-planted-diehard-supporter-audience-attack-UKIP-panellist.html

    Who knows, the Michael from London email on the BBC timeline at 18.49 could have been dreamed up in their newsroom, nobody knows?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777747
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    Who really know what their hidden agenda is at the BBC but they don't mind planting the odd stooge at Question Time
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292995/Question-Time-How-Labour-Party-planted-diehard-supporter-audience-attack-UKIP-panellist.html

    Who knows, the Michael from London email on the BBC timeline at 18.49 could have been dreamed up in their newsroom, nobody knows?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777747

    Yes nobody knows but it doesn't stop people making up ridiculous conspiracy theories does it.
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    trevgotrevgo Posts: 28,241
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    Who really know what their hidden agenda is at the BBC but they don't mind planting the odd stooge at Question Time
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292995/Question-Time-How-Labour-Party-planted-diehard-supporter-audience-attack-UKIP-panellist.html

    Who knows, the Michael from London email on the BBC timeline at 18.49 could have been dreamed up in their newsroom, nobody knows?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777747

    Indeed. Who know? Do you?

    No you don't.

    As for the QT non-issue, as anyone who has ever been on the programme knows, the bulk of the tickets are distributed by local political parties, which is why there are always outspoken and partisan comments made from all directions.
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    mossy2103mossy2103 Posts: 84,308
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    Who really know what their hidden agenda is at the BBC but they don't mind planting the odd stooge at Question Time
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292995/Question-Time-How-Labour-Party-planted-diehard-supporter-audience-attack-UKIP-panellist.html
    Oh dear, if you read the headline:

    The Question Time stooge: How Labour Party planted a diehard supporter in the BBC audience to attack UKIP panellist on debate show

    So it was the LABOUR PARTY who allegedly "planted the stooge", not the BBC.

    And, as has been stated both here and by the BBC, the audience is drawn from a cross-section of people, many from political parties.


    And another report from The Express:
    A YOUNG politics graduate was planted in the BBC Question Time audience by the Labour Party in what appears to be well planned ambush on UKIP.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/384226/Labour-supporter-planted-in-BBC-Question-Time-audience-to-attack-UKIP-panelist


    But hey, why not blame the BBC, after all it is a ridiculous conspiracy theory.


    Who knows, the Michael from London email on the BBC timeline at 18.49 could have been dreamed up in their newsroom, nobody knows?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777747

    Well, YOU don't, that's for sure. Any more silly theories?
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    LyricalisLyricalis Posts: 57,958
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    Channel 4 News were asking the same questions in their coverage of the new Pope. It's hardly unique to the BBC.
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    jjnejjne Posts: 6,580
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    Surely if the BBC has a progressive bias, it should be hoping that the Pope is a conservative?

    The best way to accelerate religious decline is for religion itself to retreat into its box.
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    LyricalisLyricalis Posts: 57,958
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    jjne wrote: »
    Surely if the BBC has a progressive bias, it should be hoping that the Pope is a conservative?

    The best way to accelerate religious decline is for religion itself to retreat into its box.

    I guess it depends on whether all the progressives have already left. A conservative leader might stop the rest from leaving, but I doubt that many people would go back once they've realised what a bunch of nonsense it all was.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    Nice little quite to show how progressive and forward thinking this new pope is.
    Women are naturally unfit for political office (…) The natural order and facts teach us that man is a politician par excellence, the Scriptures show us that woman is always the supporter of man, the thinker and doer, but nothing more than that
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    redtuxredtux Posts: 1,241
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    whip wrote: »
    Nice little quite to show how progressive and forward thinking this new pope is. .

    Shades of malleus maleficarum
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    redtux wrote: »
    Shades of malleus maleficarum

    Yes I can see him getting the hammer of witches out.
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    JohnbeeJohnbee Posts: 4,019
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    I thought that the BBC gave a totally supportive reaction to the new pope. It annoyed me a bit that some referred toi Francis The First, but otherwise it was a bit too reverential about him for me. They seemed delighted that he is a conservative. After all, we can not have a sensible pope.
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    edExedEx Posts: 13,460
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    No hidden agenda, Aunty is openly young, gay and ethnic with a liberal-left Guardian reading cultural bias ;)
    I totally disagree. Having followed the quite blatant bias towards the religious in the reports on equal marriage it's obvious the BBC wants to create a story about the new Pope rather than show any support for LGBT rights. It's most certainly not a pro-gay organisation.
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    walkabouterwalkabouter Posts: 568
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    whip wrote: »
    Ah you mean human, surely that means the people opposing them are close minded, old, homophobic and white with a rabid-right Daily Mail reading anti-cultural bias.

    Old people oppose young and white people oppose blacks.:confused:
    You need to get out more.
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    rusty123rusty123 Posts: 22,872
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    Lyricalis wrote: »
    Channel 4 News were asking the same questions in their coverage of the new Pope. It's hardly unique to the BBC.

    However many times it's asked doesn't change the fact it's a bloody stupid question.
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    1Mickey1Mickey Posts: 10,427
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    rusty123 wrote: »
    However many times it's asked doesn't change the fact it's a bloody stupid question.

    Couldn't agree more.
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    phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    Is the BBC upset that the new pope is not progressive?

    Very probably a hell of a lot MORE people than the BBC are upset that the new pope is not progressive! :p
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