Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts
Monday, April 21, 2008

Nice way to send off the Pope, Catholic News Service

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Theology students extol pope's pastoral gifts but say change unlikely , by Chris Herlinger: NEW YORK (CNS) -- Catholic students at one o...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Newsweek: "Benedict incapable of dealing with "messiness of human life"

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Perhaps in some skewed attempt to appear "fair and balanced", or maybe just to placate their more liberal subscription base, the n...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Well, maybe just a wee bit biased . . .

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Just a few pickings from the cliche-ridden mainstream-media papal coverage -- oftentimes with such barely-concealed hostility towards the Po...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Carl Olson on the "MSM Papal Word Association Game"

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I was going to comment on USA Today's piece on Pope Benedict -- or what passes for "journalism" on the Pope in the mainstream...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

American Papist helps the Associated Press "fill in the Generation Gap"

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Generation Gap Shapes Catholic Church in America , by Rachel Zolli. Associated Press. April 6, 2008: The younger generation considers relig...

"Recruiting the Pope as a leader in the War on Terror"?!?

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"Americans warm to Benedict—but they won't like everything he says" -- so says The Economist ("Don't all hug him a...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Mark Shea vs. the MSM

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Shea's Iron Law of Media-Reported Benedictine Growth Catholic Exchange. April 1, 2008 Three years ago, the Mainstream Media (MSM) gathe...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

George Weigel, Micheal Sean Winters and the "McBrien Prize in Really Inept Vaticanology"

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"Americans are still from Mars, and Europeans -- including Vatican foreign policy officials -- are still from Venus", pronounces S...

Catholic League presents "checklist" of media prejudices

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue nails it in his assessment of the mainstream press' papal covarage : “Look for Pope Benedict XVI ...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Peter Steinfels on "Clichéd Coverage" of Benedict XVI

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Pope Is Coming, as Is Clichéd Coverage in the Media , by Peter Steinfels. New York Times March 29, 2008: This will now be the eighth or nin...

How do you tell a good article on the Pope/Church from a bad one?

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Observe the extent to which the author focuses on the grievances of "progressives" against the orthodox ("traditional") ...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

How the media can help understand Pope Benedict XVI

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From Good advice, courtesy of reporter Sheila Liaugminas : Recently, I was on a teleconference with the bishops tasked with informing the me...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Confounded Media grapples with the "mystery" of Pope Benedict XVI

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Benedict still a mystery after 3 years as pope , says Gary Stern ( USA Today March 23, 2008) As Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the ...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Times' Richard Owen on the Vatican's "Papal Makeover"

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Vatican PR ensures rebranded Pope Benedict XVI will triumph in US -- at least that's the story according to Richard Owen for the Sunday...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Tim Drake: The "WOCHA" Mantra Has Officially Begun!

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" The "WOCHA" Mantra Has Officially Begun ," says Pope2008's Tim Drake: I was wondering how long it would take befor...