NBC Apologizes For MSNBC’s Hit On Pope

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The initial report from the Catholic League is this:

"Go to the home page of MSNBC and click on ‘World News.’ From there click on ‘Americas.’ Next click on the article, ‘Losing Their Religion? Catholicism in Turmoil.’ Scroll down and in the ‘Click for Related Content’ section there is an article entitled, ‘Pope Describes Touching Boys: I Went Too Far.’ Clicking on this piece takes the reader to an article about a homosexual German priest who had sex with males in the 1980s. It says absolutely nothing about the pope. Yet MSNBC paints Pope Benedict XVI as a child molester in the tease to the article.

A retraction, and a sincere apology, are in order. They should also investigate how this happened and who is responsible."

Through pressure applied by Bill Donohue and the Catholic League, NBC backed off their sneaky tactic and apologized for the misleading story:

"NBC apologized today for an article on MSNBC’s website entitled, ‘Pope Describes Touching Boys: I Went Too Far.’ The article that readers accessed after clicking on it actually had nothing to do with the pope.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue accepted the apology today:

NBC says the attributed quote was erroneous and they have corrected the error. An apology was also extended. The apology is accepted. We hope that whoever was responsible for this outrageous post is questioned about it and that appropriate measures are taken. We look forward to hearing the outcome."

How are these dishonest news media outlets still in business?
 
:eek:😦 That is shameful on the part of NBC…Someone should be fired, for sure…isn’t that slander, defamation of character? Those are crimes to knowingly print a falsehood about someone’s character, and reputation. Praying for Pope Benedict…how horrible this all is…all in the name of ratings. 😦
 
I am actually impressed that NBC took action on this. If they would tend their own house even half as well as they expect others to tend theirs, I would be impressed. This is a positive note, regardless of the motivation.
 
pnewton said:
I am actually impressed that NBC took action on this. If they would tend their own house even half as well as they expect others to tend theirs, I would be impressed. This is a positive note, regardless of the motivation.
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This is hardly a positive note. In Politics as well as in many other areas on life, there is a saying that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Now obviously MSNBC (or MSLSD for all the Mark Levin listeners out there) didn’t need permission to write something about the Pope, but it is easier for them to ask for forgiveness after the fact if they want to do something vile to advance their agenda. I do not believe for a second that they are sorry for their “error”. Nobody in the world would have a typo or whatever that is that far off. This is simply a tactic to bash The Church, while trying to not lose some of those that may have been offended.

See if you get offended by MSNBC and they don’t apologize, they lose viewers. That is fewer people that they can fill with their liberal, anti-christian, pro-Obama messages. They have to apologize if they want to bring people to their side.

How is the a “positive note, regardless of the motivation.” If someone where to trash you in the media (or on a world wide stage) knowing they would have to apologize later, how can that apology be taken seriously. That is like the sin on presumption. If you commit a sin and say “its ok, I’ll be forgiven later” are you really sorry? Not until you have true contrition are you really forgiven of that sin.

MSNBC makes me sick.
 
Positive? Well, somewhere somebody purposely entitled that article that way, knowing full well it wasn’t proper. They got called out on it and NBC issued an apology. They do this for ratings. Like the old saying goes, “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”. That they had to issue an apology raises people’s curiosities that may have yet to see the article. So now everybody wants to see what was such a big deal. Yes they should apologize, but they shouldn’t have done it in the first place. We need to hold the media to higher moral standards. I remember right after 9/11, when they were saying this would be a new day and age for news broadcasters; that this was a wake up call for them to essentially clean up their acts and concentrate on proper reporting and selecting things that would support America. Ummmm… I don’t remember any change. The only thing I remember is the ratings game of them throwing any and all video tape of the incident on the news. I’m a firefighter sitting at home with my family, my brothers from my department are there that night for search and rescue. I’m watching the news and they show a video that has a fireman getting somebody off the street. Two seconds later a huge piece of debris, about firetruck sized, is where I was watching the fireman. They showed a fireman get killed on tv. It’s ratings. Always has been, always will be.
 
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Positive? Well, somewhere somebody purposely entitled that article that way, knowing full well it wasn’t proper. They got called out on it and NBC issued an apology. They do this for ratings. Like the old saying goes, “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”. That they had to issue an apology raises people’s curiosities that may have yet to see the article. So now everybody wants to see what was such a big deal. Yes they should apologize, but they shouldn’t have done it in the first place. We need to hold the media to higher moral standards. I remember right after 9/11, when they were saying this would be a new day and age for news broadcasters; that this was a wake up call for them to essentially clean up their acts and concentrate on proper reporting and selecting things that would support America. Ummmm… I don’t remember any change. The only thing I remember is the ratings game of them throwing any and all video tape of the incident on the news. I’m a firefighter sitting at home with my family, my brothers from my department are there that night for search and rescue. I’m watching the news and they show a video that has a fireman getting somebody off the street. Two seconds later a huge piece of debris, about firetruck sized, is where I was watching the fireman. They showed a fireman get killed on tv. It’s ratings. Always has been, always will be.
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All that you say is true, but the irony of this is…that many see the Pope, and other clergy issuing apologies to victims of abuse, and the public, as being a way to merely ‘‘save face.’’ Now that the stories have been blown sky high, the clergy is forced to apologize, according to many. We shouldn’t pick and choose who to forgive, we are to forgive people who make bad choices in judgement. Who sin. It’s terrible that MSNBC said something so disgraceful…but, if NBC is apologizing…why are we so quick to judge its motives behind the apology? It doesn’t feel very good when people are judging the Pope, or judging the Church’s ‘‘motives’’ for apologizing now…so, we have to keep this in perspective when judging others who mess up.
 
whatevergirl said:
All that you say is true, but the irony of this is…that many see the Pope, and other clergy issuing apologies to victims of abuse, and the public, as being a way to merely ‘‘save face.’’ Now that the stories have been blown sky high, the clergy is forced to apologize, according to many. We shouldn’t pick and choose who to forgive, we are to forgive people who make bad choices in judgement. Who sin. It’s terrible that MSNBC said something so disgraceful…but, if NBC is apologizing…why are we so quick to judge its motives behind the apology? It doesn’t feel very good when people are judging the Pope, or judging the Church’s ‘‘motives’’ for apologizing now…so, we have to keep this in perspective when judging others who mess up./QUOTE

Whatevergirl, I agree with you fully. We must be very careful not to introduce double standards when administering mercy to others who have wronged us. I know it is difficult to do this in the intense period of the Sex abuse scandals, unfair attacks on the Pope and the Church hierachy. I know all of us are very passionate about our Church and rightly so. We need to keep it clear and objective when we forgive others.
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whatevergirl said:
All that you say is true, but the irony of this is…that many see the Pope, and other clergy issuing apologies to victims of abuse, and the public, as being a way to merely ‘‘save face.’’ Now that the stories have been blown sky high, the clergy is forced to apologize, according to many. We shouldn’t pick and choose who to forgive, we are to forgive people who make bad choices in judgement. Who sin. It’s terrible that MSNBC said something so disgraceful…but, if NBC is apologizing…why are we so quick to judge its motives behind the apology?
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So you noticed the double standard. I commented on the double standard from the point of view of NBC, apologizing while igoring or spinning a papal apology (of which several have been issued since the nineties when this stuff started to come out. Now we see the other side. Those who expect the Church’s apologies to carry weight while giving nothing but the worst spin on NBC.

Consistency is very hard to come by for us humans.
 
pnewton said:
So you noticed the double standard. I commented on the double standard from the point of view of NBC, apologizing while igoring or spinning a papal apology (of which several have been issued since the nineties when this stuff started to come out. Now we see the other side. Those who expect the Church’s apologies to carry weight while giving nothing but the worst spin on NBC.

Consistency is very hard to come by for us humans.
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*lol, yes! The double standard exists for both sides…and as a Catholic, it’s very hard to see the harsh treatment the Church Herself is getting in the news. Men commited sins and abused their positions within the Church, but it’s being twisted in the press, that that somehow is part and parcel of what life is like as a Catholic–coverups and scandal…and not telling the truth. The abuse scandals are a tragedy enough as it is, based in truth…the fabrications add salt to the wounds of the victims, and smear the good names of the clergy who weren’t involved in the scandals, and that of our Pope, too. I wonder if it truly will ever ‘‘die down.’’ *
 
Maybe NBC should send the reporters to the civil authorities for slander, this is a crime. Are they covering it up within their own organization. Are they dismissing their reporter, no. Should they chastise him and not ever let him be on the air again.

They fire a reporter if that reporter makes a statement that offends another other minority in this country, But offensive comments against the Catholic church are ok.

The hypocrisy of these slanderous so called news agencies is sickening
 
manygift1spirit said:
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I am hoping that was an April Fool’s joke. It might still be, but no one can yet say if the analogy will prove itself silly or prescient.
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No joke. I was serious. The Church has many enemies for which logic and facts are something to use to rail on the Church or they are something to ignore. Time will not change these attacks. I really would not be surprised if five hundred years from now the story will be that for two hundred years over half the clergy abused more than 50 million children. It will be like a fish story in which the fish grows with every telling. The fact that this is still a news story decades later does not bode well.
 
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