BBC report on the funeral for 70-year-old retired priest Canon Hereward Cooke, Norwich diocese environmental officer
I noticed earlier that the BBC news website had a headline about the funeral of a retired priest, but frankly couldn’t be bothered to read the article, even though I was quite surprised that a vicar’s funeral should make the BBC news website front page.
Now, thanks to the Biased BBC blog, I understand why:-
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: GREEN VICAR SHOCK
It’s pretty darn unusual for the BBC website to cover the death of a local Church of England vicar; in fact, pretty much their only interest in Christianity and our established religion these days is in gay bishops. When I was in BBC local radio, it was only when a local bishop popped his clogs that we reached for our microphones.
Unless, that is, he’s a revered green campaigner. Such, apparently, was the Reverend Hereward Cooke, a vicar in the Norwich area, who cycled the 150 miles to Copenhagen to attend the UN summit in December, and there, tragically, died in his sleep. I’ve nothing against Mr Cooke, I am sure he was a god-fearing chap, though it is a pity that he thought ‘climate change‘ so important.
But to the BBC, of course, he’s a saint. Any mention of ‘green’ and ‘climate change‘ – no matter how inconsequential – is front page news.
How true.
Tags: Media
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:31 pm
A bit like Dr Forster who went ot Gloucester in a shower of rain, stepped in a puddle right up to his middle and was never to be seen again!
Climate change, floods, perhaps? Nah, not that long ago surely?
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Why isn’t climate change/enviromental change important? Millions of people in sub-Sahara Africa are at risk and water shortages are even hitting parts of the USA. Many evangelical Christian organisations like Tear Fund think the subject important although I see extreme right wing republican Franklin Graham over on the BGEA website still thinks abortion and homeosexuality a bigger issue and has a down on what he calls socialistic European governments.
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Don’t read too much into this, except perhaps to say that in Dr Foster’s day there seems to have been a lot of flooding too! Natural climate change is something we can’t control. I would like to see an end to industrial pollution and the rape of the rain forests but I am not entirely sure it can be enforced. Once the Greens become an enemy of the government and industry they will lose funding and I see that happening already.