tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post6682075140577390138..comments2024-03-27T11:26:55.051-04:00Comments on Vox Cantoris: Coren and the truthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-33417130185420817562014-06-30T21:42:39.843-04:002014-06-30T21:42:39.843-04:00This guy will not get that it really isn't abo...This guy will not get that it really isn't about gays but rather about Coren himself. If he hadn't publicly trashed Teresa Pierre and PAFE we would not have posted about him at all. Using a TV show to dump on your friends is really tacky. A well known Catholic commentator who casts doubt about part of the catechism is a serious thing.Freyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01706221683777453812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-30002192778040652052014-06-30T19:45:31.588-04:002014-06-30T19:45:31.588-04:00Coren: to paraphrase Tony Hancock: dishonoured, bu...Coren: to paraphrase Tony Hancock: dishonoured, but not ruined. Good luck to him. Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-87059674200400921012014-06-30T19:06:47.026-04:002014-06-30T19:06:47.026-04:00As obnoxiously wrong-headed as he is on this matte...As obnoxiously wrong-headed as he is on this matter, I do have some sympathy for Mr. Coren's plight. The modern mass-media pundit is a brand: a purveyor of reliable opinions delivered with a reliable attitude. Show bookers ask Mr. Coren to appear because they calculate that his brand--"fearless, contrarian, tell-it-like-it-is conservative"--will deliver an audience for their advertisers. In that sense, the mass-media pundit is like Starbucks or McDonalds: you know precisely what you're going to get each time. <br /><br />This situation imposes certain incentives on Mr. Coren and colleagues: In order to remain attractive to bookers, they have to maintain their "brand" personae, and they can't stray too far from mass-market acceptability. (The Catholic media alone is far too small a pond for a big fish like Mr. Coren: his career depends on access to big newspapers and network TV programs.)<br /><br />For a liberal or middle-of-the-road pundit (i.e. most of them), it's dead easy to stay inside the window of acceptability--just take your cues from the Globe, the Star, or the CBC. But the contrarian pundit lives out close to the edge of acceptability, and must constantly re-evaluate his positions in order to stay relevant and keep his career motoring along.<br /><br />Given the hyper-acceleration of the TLBG agenda in recent times, and the mob justice exacted against dissenters both low and high, Coren faced a stark choice: honestly and charitably present the true Catholic position on same-sex behaviour ... and risk being exiled to the little pond of the Catholic media ghetto. <i>Or</i> "evolve" his way to approval of the Great Moral Crusade of Our Day, while loudly pretending to be the beleaguered voice of Catholic orthodoxy against the h8ers.<br /><br />The one place that orthodox Catholics have any leverage is with conservative Catholic media outlets which occasionally invite Coren on: EWTN, Catholic Answers, both Registers, etc. Send them links to his column and FB posts, and politely ask them if they wish to be associated with a Catholic commentator who displays such puppylike eagerness to disavow Church teaching. These outfits are wobbly in many respects, but they're nowhere near as far gone as Coren. Not yet, anyway.Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12747213382322731103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20981956.post-75886114295357847262014-06-30T17:33:49.292-04:002014-06-30T17:33:49.292-04:00Outstanding post, Vox. Outstanding post, Vox. Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.com