Pope Francis to Dine with Gay and Transgender Inmates in Naples Prison

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He made a special request to have lunch with inmates

Pope Francis will have lunch on Saturday with some 90 inmates at a prison near Naples, including some that reportedly come from a ward housing gay, transgender and HIV-infected inmates.

Tv2000, a television network operated by Italy’s Catholic bishops, reports that lunch at the Giuseppe Salvia Detention Center was originally not on the schedule, but Pope Francis made a special request to dine with the inmates. A number of the estimated 100 prisoners are gay, transgender and/or infected with HIV, the report said.

time.com/3752462/pope-francis-gay-transgender-prison/
 
Instead of a more accurate title to the news article, like

Pope Francis to Dine with Inmates in Naples Prison

the Time reporter zooms in at gay and transgender inmates.

As if the Pope has made it a point to dine only with the gay and transgender inmates.

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InSearchofGrace said:
Instead of a more accurate title to the news article, like

Pope Francis to Dine with Inmates in Naples Prison

the Time reporter zooms in at gay and transgender inmates.

As if the Pope has made it a point to dine only with the gay and transgender inmates.

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True.
 
InSearchofGrace said:
Instead of a more accurate title to the news article, like

Pope Francis to Dine with Inmates in Naples Prison

the Time reporter zooms in at gay and transgender inmates.

As if the Pope has made it a point to dine only with the gay and transgender inmates.

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This is another example of why I find it increasingly difficult to trust news sources, they tilt everything, especially the headlines…
 
InSearchofGrace said:
Instead of a more accurate title to the news article, like

Pope Francis to Dine with Inmates in Naples Prison

the Time reporter zooms in at gay and transgender inmates.

As if the Pope has made it a point to dine only with the gay and transgender inmates.

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Yep, that was might thought too. The headline makes it appear that the Pope requested to have a special meal with gay and transgender inmates. In reality it is “Pope dines with people who are incarcerated”. I suspect he thinks person first, inmate second, and sexual preference not at all.
 
ProdglArchitect said:
This is another example of why I find it increasingly difficult to trust news sources, they tilt everything, especially the headlines…
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Just wait for the news headlines after the meeting. Who knows what the Pope “will have accepted.”
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InSearchofGrace said:
Instead of a more accurate title to the news article, like

Pope Francis to Dine with Inmates in Naples Prison

the Time reporter zooms in at gay and transgender inmates.

As if the Pope has made it a point to dine only with the gay and transgender inmates.

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I thought the same thing.
 
DaddyGirl said:
The religious news sources do the same thing of course, especially that Lifesite News–they tilt so far they fall into factual error.

But the whole point of writing a headline is to pick out a detail from the story that is a little different or unique…that will grab the reader’s attention and intrigue them and make them want to read it.
This headline is not incorrect, he will be dining with gay and transgender inmates.
But there is only so much space for a hed so you have to make the most of it. There’s not enough space to say everything.
That is what the first sentence/paragraph of the story is for…and the writer does explain immediately in that first sentence.

Since it is such a big issue right now in the news and with the recent synod, it makes perfect sense to highlight this in the headline.
Speaking as a journalist, that is.

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Working from that basis do you think the article would have been written, or picked up, if there were not gay or transgender in that prison? In other words is it the fact that the Pope is dining with prisoners or is it that he is dining with LGBT persons that makes it news worthy?

Pulling out a salient fact makes sense, but the real question is if the Pope would not have asked if those particular people were not there. If the sexual preference of the inmates made no difference then it is not a salient fact, but rather a way to sensationalize the article knowing that many will not read past the headline.
 
Usige said:
Working from that basis do you think the article would have been written, or picked up, if there were not gay or transgender in that prison? In other words is it the fact that the Pope is dining with prisoners or is it that he is dining with LGBT persons that makes it news worthy?

Pulling out a salient fact makes sense, but the real question is if the Pope would not have asked if those particular people were not there. If the sexual preference of the inmates made no difference then it is not a salient fact, but rather a way to sensationalize the article knowing that many will not read past the headline.
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I am sure that many priests and deacons visit prisoners, some do it on a regular basis. Must of been a slow news day.
 
DaddyGirl said:
The religious news sources do the same thing of course, especially that Lifesite News–they tilt so far they fall into factual error.

But the whole point of writing a headline is to pick out a detail from the story that is a little different or unique…that will grab the reader’s attention and intrigue them and make them want to read it.
This headline is not incorrect, he will be dining with gay and transgender inmates.
**But there is only so much space for a hed so you have to make the most of it. There’s not enough space to say everything. **
That is what the first sentence/paragraph of the story is for…and the writer does explain immediately in that first sentence.

Since it is such a big issue right now in the news and with the recent synod, it makes perfect sense to highlight this in the headline.
Speaking as a journalist, that is.
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Fail.

Pope Francis to Dine with Gay and Transgender Inmates in Naples Prison

as a heading is longer than

Pope Francis to Dine with Inmates in Naples Prison

by three words.

Further, this correspondent needs to go back to journalism school. As I noted in a submission of another correspondent (in Crux), Ms. Dias is either inept in choosing the appropriate caption or she does not care that her spin is so blatant and obvious.
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Pope St John XVIII visited an Italian prison during his pontificate, even visiting the wing housing all the violent and incorrigible recidivists deemed too dangerous to release back into society.

Pope Francis is merely continuing the tradition.
 
LOL. Imagine Christ being invited to a tax collector’s home and asking him, “Excuse me, how many homosexuals are going to be at the meal? I want to make sure the Pharisees will run a really juicy bit about me.”

The poor Holy Father really wasn’t made for this world and its media…
 
This Pope is definitely a leader for the times. God’s hand so evident in his election
 
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