Posted on 01/24/2018 5:29:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
Pope Francis is denouncing “fake news” as evil and is urging journalists to make it their mission to search for the truth.
After a week in which Francis faced unprecedented bad press during his South American tour, the pope released his annual social communications message Wednesday dedicated this year to “fake news and journalism for peace.”
Francis writes that the first fake news dates from the Biblical beginning of time, when Eve was tempted to take an apple from the Garden of Eden based on disinformation from the serpent.
“The strategy of this skilled ‘Father of Lies’ is precisely mimicry, that sly and dangerous form of seduction that worms its way into the heart with false and alluring arguments,” Francis said of the snake.
In today’s fast-paced information age, he called for a shared commitment to rediscovering the “dignity of journalism” and for reporters to speak the truth with a journalism that is “truthful and opposed to falsehoods, rhetorical slogans, and sensational headlines.”
The message made no reference to how some public figures — most notably U.S. President Donald Trump — often label unflattering or critical reports “fake news” to try to discredit the information. …
(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...
He needs to give us 3 examples of fake news......just so we can catch his drift
Translation: “Fake news is anything that criticizes me!”
This from the guy who believes Algore and his get-rich-quick scheme, aka Glo-bull Warming? The man who thinks that the group he heads has been wrong on abortion, gay marriage and other “fads” of the past 50 years? The man who is driving his most devoted fans away from their traditional Sunday meetings?
Who is this guy, Pope Frankie or Emperor Goodell?
I guess it never occurred to him that global warming/climate change is the fakest of fake news, and he fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
What does it mean when the Pope is putting out fake news then?
the spin from The Beeb -
24 Jan: BBC: Pope says serpent temptation in Bible ‘first fake news’
It comes amid a debate on ways to contain the spread of fake news on social media platforms and how it may have influenced recent elections, including in the US in 2016...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42802295
funny how BBC left out “traditional media”!
24 Jan: Vatican News: Pope Francis releases 2018 World Communications Day message
1. What is “fake” about fake news?
The term “fake news” has been the object of great discussion and debate. In general, it refers to the spreading of disinformation on line or in the traditional media...
more spin:
The pope’s fake news guide couldn’t be more different from Trump’s
In Depth· Washington Post· 6h ago
yet, when it suits, they show no love:
24 Jan: New York Review of Books: The Guilty Soul of Pope Francis
by Ariel Dorfman
There were certain words that Chileans were hoping that Pope Francis would say during his three-day visit to our country last week…
In an op-ed I wrote for The New York Times that appeared just before the papal visit, I argued that, for Chileans, the way in which Francis handled this case would be a critical test...
Did the pope not understand that this was a chance to redeem himself for not having been a Good Samaritan in Argentina? Did he not realize that this was a unique opportunity to show the courage he lacked years ago? Instead, he has damaged his moral standing and weakened the impact of his vital messages about the threats to humanity of poverty, war, and ecological disaster.
May the God Francis believes in forgive him.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/01/24/the-guilty-soul-of-pope-francis/
So, the fact that the Fake Pope is a Marxist should be shouted out by the LSM or not?
This is not a news article. It is an opinion piece.
He should be more concerned about the fake prophet murderous warlord’s death cult that has a billion people enslaved in the name of an antiChrist deceiver.
Bet he wasn’t concerned about Dan Ratherbiased’s effort to influence the 2004 election with a forged document presented as news.
He’s actually right, without meaning to be correct.
Problem is, he thinks that anything right-of-center is FAKE news.
I say the same about fake Popes.
Maybe someone needs to get Frankie up to speed.
Why doesn’t someone call it for what it is?
Obama weaponized the Severity the Intel groups , CIA, FBI, DOJ for the undermining of America values.
Another Stalin-esque ingredient for success is control of the medias for dissemination of “fake” news.
In retrospect I’m sure Shepilov would call it propaganda.
Joseph Goebbels would call it propaganda too.
Example #1 - spreading #FakeScience lies like Globull Warming/Climate Change nonsense.
Unfortunately he turned out to be the Obama of popes. We need a new one.
All too often their mission IS to search for the truth-and then promptly bury it.
Hey Frankie shut up.
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