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Meno denunce del previsto raccolte da Channel 4 per la programmazione di una puntata di ‘The Bible: a History’ affidata a Gerry Adams

Sono solo 29 le denunce spiccate contro Channel 4, l’emittente televisiva che ha trasmesso la largamente anticipata puntata di ‘The Bible: A History‘ la cui conduzione era stata affidata a Gerry Adams, leader discusso del Sinn Fein.
Lo sdegno deriva dalla presenza ‘blasfema’ di colui che è stato un esponente di primo piano dell’IRA, in un programma religioso che in occasione della messa in onda della puntata ‘incriminata’, ha conquistato un audiance di 833.000 persone.
Il numero di denunce risulta essere irrisorio in merito a come era stata preventivamente accolta la notizia della presenza di Adams nel programma.
John Crace del The Guardian tuonò che ‘The Bible: A History’ era stato ‘annunciato incentrato più sulla leggenda di Gerry Adams anzichè sulla Bibbia’ e l’ha giudicato ‘più di un contatto con il diavolo’.
Sulla stessa scia i commenti di Gerard O’Donovan del The Telegraph: “Non ci sono risposte ovvie a tale programma”.
Nella puntata che è stata messa in onda nella serata di domenica scorsa, il leader del Sinn Fein ha affrontato il tema della vita e della morte di Gesù, dal punto di vista della sua vita e carriera. Egli si è descritto come un “cattolico irlandese che, nonostante tutte le bassezze e gli scandali in cui la  Chiesa è stata coinvolta, ne rimane un membro”.

Lukewarm response to Adams on TV (Irish Post)
Channel 4 received just 29 complaints following the appearance of Gerry Adams in The Bible: A History series which aired on Sunday night.
It was anticipated the appearance of the Sinn Féin president in a religious documentary, on British prime time television would cause a storm of controversy, but the response to the complaints department of the broadcaster has been largely indifferent. A spokeswoman for Channel 4 said: “The complaints have been pretty low since the programme was aired.”
The low figure was at odds with a media assertion which stated Adams appearance would cause offence to many. In the Guardian on Monday, John Crace said the programme was: “Billed as more about Gerry Adams’ own legend than The Bible.” And that the latest installment was “more of a contact with the devil”.
Gerard O’Donovan in The Telegraph wrote: “There are obvious responses to such a programme.
The first is to throw your hands up in horror, to curse and fulminate at what might be seen as the arrogance, hypocrisy or self-delusion of a man who, as a former spokesman-in-chief for IRA terrorism, can here, when asked if he has blood on his hands, blithely reply: ‘No, I don’t.’ Another, more simple, response is to switch off the TV.
“Then again, there is what could, in the phrase of that other great peacemaker of our time, Tony Blair, be called the third way. To sit down, watch, and see if one can actually glean something meaningful from it, however offensive it may be.”
In the documentary, which attracted viewing figures of 833,000, Adams investigated the life and death of Jesus Christ against the backdrop of his own life and career. He described himself as an “Irish Catholic who, despite all the let-downs and scandals the Church has been embroiled in, remains a member”.