AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
MIRANDA DEVINE HERALD SUN MAY 23, 2015
DIE Pell” was the headline on The Age Facebook page, over a photograph of Cardinal George Pell.
Editor in chief Andrew Holden claimed the page had been hacked, and the offending words inserted by persons unknown, where they remained for an hour on Wednesday morning.
“I assume it’s a hacker, but I don’t know absolutely… You never expect somebody from The Age to put those sort of words on a story.”
Well, maybe.
Offensive as it was, the death threat was the least of the shameful abuse that has been heaped on Pell as the child sexual abuse royal commission moves into his former home town of Ballarat.
Not just by the defamatory swamp of Twitter, but by mainstream media and politicians, who have joined the absurd call for Pell to “come home” from the Vatican to answer allegations he ignored one victim of a paedophile priest and tried to bribe another.
He has testified under oath twice, including before the royal commission, last August by video link from Rome, and says he is willing to do so again if asked by the commissioners. Is he expected to respond to a Twitter hashtag?
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