{"id":5246,"date":"2007-04-15T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T22:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=7"},"modified":"2022-08-29T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:50:42","slug":"objectivity-and-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/objectivity-and-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Objectivity and perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Welborn surveys the Mainstream Media’s assessments of the German Shepherd on his eightieth birthday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

These journalists – and many of their sources – show absolutely no evidence of ever having read anything Benedict has written – whether we’re talking about his books as Joseph Ratzinger or, more criminally, the homilies he preached, you know, last week.<\/p>\n

This constant refusal to just report on what the Pope says (unless it is a phrase containing the words “Iraq,” “abortion” or “politician”) is getting more than tiresome. How many journalists reporting on Benedict in the secular English-speaking mainstream media are even making an effort to listen to and understand Benedict on his own terms?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And from the comments:<\/p>\n

The MSM are part of the demographic mix of elites that is now 2 generations detached from religious connectivity. The idea of a spiritual or interior life is alien to them. It’s not that Benedict’s theological\/philosophical reasoning is different than their own. They generally never reason about a theological or philosophical framework at all. Given that, they can only write about Benedict from a pedestrian context because that’s the only context in which they live. When the MSM reports on Benedict, think the depth of the Seinfeld characters without the laughs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy Welborn surveys the Mainstream Media’s assessments of the German Shepherd on his eightieth birthday: These journalists – and many of their sources – show absolutely no evidence of ever having read anything Benedict has written – whether we’re talking about his books as Joseph Ratzinger or, more criminally, the homilies he preached, you know, … Continue reading “Objectivity and perspective”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1mC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166800,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/166800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}