Pope Francis: "Disinformation" Is Media's "Most Insidious" Sin

Breitbart.com ^ | December 16, 2014 | Thomas D. Williams, PH.D

[Biggirl]

Pope Francis has identified what he called “the sins of the media,” narrowing them down to three: “disinformation, slander, and defamation.” Of these, he said, “the most insidious is disinformation,” which he compared to telling half-truths.

[WashingtonSource]

Well. This is a nice surprise

[Nervous Tick]

Even a nutty pope finds a blind squirrel once in awhile. :-)

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The media, with NO moral compass at all, only serves the interests of money which controls it. As a result, almost all that it produces is designed only to deceive and rob. Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[Old Sarge]

Even a nutty pope finds a blind squirrel once in awhile.

[circlecity]

"narrowing them down to three: “disinformation, slander, and defamation"

Slander and defamation are the same thing.

[MacMattico]

I think it was originally disinformation, not defamation.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

He needs to expand this list to 7... If he wants it posted regularly to FR.

[livius]

Maybe he should stop giving so many interviews and trying to use the press as a mouthpiece, then. There was a book recently published in Spanish that collects all or most of his press interviews since taking office...and there are a lot of them, mostly with Italian and Argentinian press, since he apparently never passes anybody with a notebook to whom he does not offer an interview (in which he often says snide things about his “enemies,” or as he puts it, “the people who oppose the Pope”).

At the presentation of the book, one of the speakers said that the Pope is now the “most interviewed” public speaker in the world. And while it has helped him to then come out and claim that there were half-truths, a lot of that is attributable to him.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

He under-defines disinformation. In a grand sort of way, it is an art form, comprised of false information of several kinds, corruption of truthful information, condemnation of those who want to spread the truth, fabrication of ludicrous comparisons with the truth. And of course, mixing and matching the above.

When done properly, disinformation shuts down the conversation, leaving people to want to ignore the subject and move on, hopelessly fatigued of the topic, and unable to separate the truth from the falsehoods.

Importantly, there are many experts in the field of disinformation, who approach it almost as a science. Yet again, properly applied, it is an art form. In practice, even when you know it is disinformation, it still works to some degree. And persuading others just leads to being labeled “a kook”.

[USCG SimTech]

Call it what it is:

Bearing false witness.

Straight to hell with all of them.

[afsnco]

I wish he has been a victim of disinformation, but there seems to be far too much smoke there.

[SaraJohnson]

The humanist media does not even have a basic understanding of the Christian religion or worldview. It does not understand the terminology nor the meaning of words and subjects being discussed. The media is illiterate. Bless their hearts.