Media Obsessed with Liberal catholic agenda

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Anybody else noticing how all the media, even fox news to a degree, has been salivating over the idea of benedict adressing the “problems” of celibacy, birth control, priest abuse etc. In all do respect to those who were abused by the priests in the past, this is 2008, the fanatical media frenzy of the scandal is over. The Church now continues her mission of healing of those people. And I’m sorry to tell the media but Benedict has already settled bith control questions. And I doubt we are going to have married priests. Obviously these people are scared that their reign of modernism has ended.
 
This kind of media frenzy happened when the conclave gathered to pick a new pope. They all asked would this new pope bring about change on the issues of gay marriage, contraception, etc. The answer is always a resounding no. You would think that they would learn.

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Our liberal press will never learn, because they do not follow the Catholic idea of truth being absolute, One singular and immutable. They tend to follow a protestant understanding of truth being relative. Thats why they keep asking the same questions over and over again. When will they learn? When they learn what truth is.
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The media is obsessed with the liberal Catholic agenda because those ideas sell more time to advertisers. Advertisers would rather buy time in the midst of scandal. I would stop attacking the media because the final blame falls on the public; they are the ones infatuated with this stuff.

For the first time in my life I turned on EWTN during the Pope’s visit. It was refreshing to see coverage of his visit without mention of some scandal. I know EWTN is biased, but I preferred their bias to most networks’ bias.
 
TMGallyon85 said:
Anybody else noticing how all the media, even fox news to a degree, has been salivating over the idea of benedict adressing the “problems” of celibacy, birth control, priest abuse etc. In all do respect to those who were abused by the priests in the past, this is 2008, the fanatical media frenzy of the scandal is over. The Church now continues her mission of healing of those people. And I’m sorry to tell the media but Benedict has already settled bith control questions. And I doubt we are going to have married priests. Obviously these people are scared that their reign of modernism has ended.
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I think we are witnessing a few things:
  1. The post-baby boom age. As liberal boomers age, many become more angry at those things they were unable to change in their lifetime.
  2. The beginnings of the collapse of 24 hour cable ‘news’. It has gone from headlines and analysis of important events home and abroad to live news conferances on the death of the latest celebrity. Married priests and birth control issues are ‘sexy’ issues that will draw viewers.
  3. The fact that American media knows zip about christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular.
 
I remember watching CNN coverage of the papal elections in 2005, and they treated the whole thing like it was an American political election. They reviewed a few cardinals like they were presidential candidates and they judged whether they were conservative or liberal using heaven knows what rubrics.

Then when Benedict XVI was proclaimed, the correspondents were very disappointed and commented on how unlikely it would be that the Church’s position on gay marriage, contraception, and abortion would change with the new pope.
 
Larowyn said:
when Benedict XVI was proclaimed, the correspondents were very disappointed and commented on how unlikely it would be that the Church’s position on gay marriage, contraception, and abortion would change with the new pope.
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This only shows the parvity of any depth of knowledge on things they talk about with a presumed expertise that is not there.
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Deacon Ed b
 
Duke_of_Mantua said:
The media is obsessed with the liberal Catholic agenda because those ideas sell more time to advertisers. Advertisers would rather buy time in the midst of scandal. I would stop attacking the media because the final blame falls on the public; they are the ones infatuated with this stuff.

For the first time in my life I turned on EWTN during the Pope’s visit. It was refreshing to see coverage of his visit without mention of some scandal. I know EWTN is biased, but I preferred their bias to most networks’ bias.
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What bias in particular?

CDL
 
It’s always interesting to see the disconnect from what we on this board think are important and what the MSM thinks. Here, we’re all complaining about the music at the papal mass at Nationals Stadium and the media focuses on how hierarchical they thought it was.
 
Yeah. When the news media chooses to contact a representative of the Catholic Church for comment on some issue, it’s usually folks like Fr. Richard McBrien or Gregory Baum and whatnot. That is, those Catholics who are likely to give the secular/liberal/anti-Catholic media what they want to hear (“The pope should do away with infallibility,” “women should be allowed to be priests,” “we should bless gay marriages,” etc, etc., etc.). Journalists seem to be thrilled by the notion of dissent within the Church, especially from the mouths of so-called Catholic authorities. They see it as a Very Good Thing.
 
Two things come to mind about the media. First, they don’t understand the Catholic Church (or religion in general). There’s a blog called Get Religion that focuses on this. The name comes from the idea that “The press…just doesn’t get religion.”

The second thing is that they can’t report non-news. It’s not news if the pope reaffirms what previous popes have taught. So they have to find an angle. If he won’t suddenly change the teachings of the Church, then they find someone who at least wants him to make changes. Ah yes, controversy. The media can understand that.
 
I am sort of interested in this EWTN “bias” myself? Maybe Biased towards the Truth and orthodox teachings?
 
TMGallyon85 said:
Anybody else noticing how all the media, even fox news to a degree, has been salivating over the idea of benedict adressing the “problems” of celibacy, birth control, priest abuse etc. In all do respect to those who were abused by the priests in the past, this is 2008, the fanatical media frenzy of the scandal is over. The Church now continues her mission of healing of those people. And I’m sorry to tell the media but Benedict has already settled bith control questions. And I doubt we are going to have married priests. Obviously these people are scared that their reign of modernism has ended.
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Don’t forget, though, that the same liberal press also provided coverage concerning the MP last year. True, not all of it favorable, but still it got free publicity. Well, maybe not entirely free. 🙂
 
I think that the media (who follow what advertiser’s want who follow what the culture wants) wants some validation that what they (the culture) believe, no matter what church or ecclesial community they belong to, is what is approved officially by the Catholic Church. I really think that many protestants, even those who have no family in the Church or history with it, see the Catholic Church and especially the Pope as being “extra” holy and look to the Pope for verification of what they believe.😉
 
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