MEDIA BIAS AT A GLANCE!
A 'snapshot' of Yahoo's listing today of 'Papacy Vatican News' headlines - just the start of it:
All these headlines - Pope 'slams', 'rips', 'blasts', 'hits out', what-have-you - are based on
one sentence in a five-sentence letter from the Pope, and that line said this:
I wish to express to you, dear brother in the Episcopate, and to all the Bishops of Belgium, my closeness and my solidarity in this moment of sadness after raids were carried out, in surprising and deplorable ways, in the Cathedral of Mechelen and in the building where the Belgian episcopate was holding a plenary meeting.
The NY Daily News headline - misleading like all the others are - is almost longer than the relevant words in the Pope's letter! The 'strongest' word the Pope used was 'deplorable' to describe the police raids, but the way the headlines have it, you would think he was showing a disproportionate reaction to the raids rather than that the raids were disproportionate to what they intended to achieve!
I know I shouldn't be surprised but still, a snapshot of MSM headlines is a good way to go on record periodically with these habitual and blatant media misrepresentations of the Pope, without having to post the stories themselves.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 28/06/2010 17:07]