The media's catechism.(PRESS WATCH)(Catholic Church and John Paul II)

From: National Review | Date: April 25, 2005 | Copyright information

COVERING a big story, live, is hard, and journalists will make mistakes. When Christiane Amanpour of CNN described John Paul II in the hours after his death as "the first non-Catholic to be elected pope in more than 455 years," she provided some much-needed levity to the day. Nobody will hold it against her.

What is more problematic is the media's unconscious tendentiousness in describing the teachings of this pope and his Church. The Pope, nearly everyone said, was a co...

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