Mel Blasts “Post” “Passion” Play
Mel Gibson responds to the New York Post’s screening and review of a pirated copy of “The Passion of Christ”
bq.. A rabbi, a priest and a college professor walk into a room to find a New York Post reporter watching a pirated copy of Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie, The Passion of Christ.
If only there were a punchline.
The Los Angeles Times reports that federal authorities have launched a probe into what at the least looks like a major ethics violation by the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid. Investigators are hoping to determine how the Post illegally obtained a bootleg tape of the much-debated drama and reviewed it with its own panel of critics, months before the film’s scheduled release.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, we have a controversy over the controversy.
For its article, which ran in Monday’s editions, the Post rounded up a panel of experts to watch what it said was “rough-cut version” of The Passion of Christ (previously titled The Passion) from a “grainy, second generation videotape,” with temporary English subtitles translating the spoken Aramaic, no credits and “further editing changes likely.”
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