Does anybody else want to throw something at their TV?

[4HisChurch]

jmv:

It is driving me crazy as I try to flip through the channels to find a worthwile reporting of the Papal election (No EWTN in this misison diocese). All the news channels keep parading before us these people who continually criticize basic tenets of our faith. I keep realizing more and more that they don’t understand that the pope is simply the guardian of what is true, the Catholic faith handed down from Christ through the centuries. What they see it as is a political election like the pope is the “president” of the church and that whoever is elected gets to push their platform forward.

I’m so FRUSTRATED! AHHHH! I’ve had to put myself in timout to avoid breaking my TV.

[/RANT]

As a definate anti media person, I have been feeling pulled in two directions lately. I have been sorry that I refuse to pay for cable. I really wish I could have been glued to EWTN since John Paul’s final illness.

However, after getting wind of which way the MSM is going now that we have this pope, I am newly glad to remain a media hater!

Kill your television!:banghead:

 

[jmv]

WOOHOO!!!

Christopher West on Scarborough Country!!!

 

[Asella]

Jeno84:

Ahhh the only reason why i wanna throw something at my TV is because i dont have CABLE!!! i wanna see whats going on with the newest updates but all the local channels are talking about the new food guide pyramid!

They’ve spoken a lot about that food guide pyramid. Don’t they realize that no matter which way they twist that silly little pyramid people are still going to eat whatever they want? You should be glad you don’t have cable–it’s just one dissenter after another giving interviews. Same old complaints, different Pope.

:bowdown2: God Bless Benedict XVI!!!

 

[lon]

I don’t have cable anymore, but the McNeil-Lehrer report wasn’t too bad (not as good as EWTN radio, of course). They brought up the Hitler Youth thing, and didn’t get all the facts (at least as I understand them) quite right, but they did at least attempt to put the situation in historical context. And on the major points I thought they did a pretty good job, at least for the time they had.

 

[AServantofGod]

We don’t have cable, so I don’t know what’s going on there. However, I’ve been relatively pleased with the coverage and the commentaries on our channels even though it is obvious that they are often speaking out of ignorance or from a world view. But the bishops and priests who they’ve chosen to interview have done an outstanding job in responding to their questions & comments.

I’ll tell you what. In spite of the negativity & ignorance the world is getting a wonderful Catholic education about the papacy which is more than we’re receiving at our church. God is using the media to reach out, enlighten & draw home some more souls. What do you think?

 

[jmv]

AServantofGod:

God is using the media to reach out, enlighten & draw home some more souls. What do you think?

I think it absolutely great, even though many times, there are inaccuracies. I suppose those that dislike the church will use some of the flat out lies to be deeper in that. However, I think there are more people who will be drawn closer to the church because of the coverage, and the good religious and lay persons on the television. In that light, I think I’ve seen more priests on TV in the last few weeks than my entire 22 years combined

 

[Lants]

I said something similar to this on another thread, but I think we are in for some tough times vs. the media. I completely applaud Benedict XVI. This situation, though, is going to require a great deal of neighborhood level “apologetics,” and common sense discussions between people. I have read a great deal of Ratzinger’s writings, and I think that Benedict XVI is a man of deep intellect, as well as possessing a quiet, tender compassion, not the charismatic outreach of John Paul II. I promise to walk on my hands for a year, though, if anyone in the media actually reads any of the thousands of pages of Benedict XVI, and discusses this man on the merits of his words, and not in the arena of duelling labels. Pope John Paul the Great was a true genius as a philosopher, but his soul was that of a poet. Benedict XVI is a man of intelllect as well, but more of the style of a logician. In the last few hours, I have gone through God and the World again and found at least half a dozen quotes of his that “liberals” might find attractive. On pp 120-1 he very intelligently discusses the possibility of extraterrestrial life!!

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

The coverage on British TV has been very good and intelligent, in my view. People say what they have to say, and agree to disagree.​

It’s stull hard to believe who was picked though ##

 

[moira]

carol marie:

The two times I’ve thought of throwing something at the TV was when (on a Chicago station) they showed a group of women making pink smoke rise & they blathered on about how angry they were that THEY were left out of the whole Pick a Pope Process. .

Part of the problem is that a lot of Americans have a Democratic mindset. What they’re not thinking about is that the Papal conclave is not a Democratic process. It is a process of the Holy Spirit. And if they don’t like the TRUTH the Church teaches, there are more than 25,000 protestant denominations to choose from. Why stay and try to change Doctrine that can’t be changed? I don’t get it.

 

[thechrismyster]

Scott Waddell:

Rejoice my friend! This is merely the death spasms from the intellectually and morally bankrupt. Benedict XVI should spike a football in St. Peter’s square and do a little sack-dance.

Scott

thanks a lot, my wife just woke up in the other room and asked “what are you laughing at?”