Media Badmouthing Revisited

Another topic that came up during last night's talk to the deacons was the mainstream media's coverage of the Pope's visit. They wanted to know what I thought of it, in general. That discussion bounced around pretty good. Then I shared the anecdote about the young reporter whose editor gave him the St. Patrick's Cathedral assignment even though he'd never seen a Catholic Mass before. Suggested this sort of halfhearted effort was emblematic of the superficial coverage we've come to expect from Big Media on all things Catholic.

Well and good, my point, but an elderly and wise deacon proposed another way to look at that episode.

"You can never tell what being exposed to the beauty of the Mass for the first time is going to do to someone," he gently pointed out before adding, in so many words, that beauty is truth. And truth attracts.

Touché, Deacon. The last word on the story is yours.

— DP