As Christians around the world prepare for Easter, magazine readers in Germany were confronted this week by full-page advertisements depicting Jesus, wearing a crown of thorns but descended from the cross, enjoying a television program.
The ad promotes MTV's plan to broadcast a cartoon lampooning the pope and Vatican hierarchy. The series, Popetown, was considered too controversial to be aired in Britain, and it caused an uproar in the one country where it has appeared, New Zealand.
Coming at a time when the dust has yet to settle from the furor over newspaper cartoons caricaturing Mohammed, the row has prompted some Germans to ask why their faith should be an easy target. Germany is the home country of the present pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI.
The series portrays the pope as an uncontrollable, infantile character who pogo-sticks around a Vatican populated by corrupt, money-grabbing cardinals.
"South Park" regularly airs offensive programs on Comedy Central here in the U.S. The interesting things is Comedy Central and MTV are both owned by the media conglomerate Viacom. Viacom also own CBS, CMT, LOGO, Neopets, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land, Noggin, Spike TV, VH1, Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Studios and local Infinity Pittsburgh radio stations 93.7, 100.7, 107.9 and KDKA. What is is being pumped into our life by Viacom?
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