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If you look at the media, it is thier job to report, how it comes about is another story. What a news story is supposed to do is report the facts as they are and let the reader make thier own assumptions. Now we all know that we are human, and personal emotions can find thier way into what is written, but to categorize every journalist, etc.. into one category isn't nice.
I have been offended at the handling of some stories, especially of the military in the '90s, but after I stepped back and actually looked at what was being reported, I realized that certain facts were left out because they were only known to the military at the time and were deterimental to operations. Now, that's going deep with that one, but it's just one of many examples.
Now, as for the story, it was a big event, one that is digging at the very core of Catholicism. Now, who did that? The reporters? The victims? No, the very men that were supposed to be our spiritual guides. Who really is to blame on this one?
The media is not "mourning" a child molestor! I saw no sympathy for what happened to him, only a story about his death in JAIL. His killer is not being hailed as a "hero". I see it as more of a realization that within the corrections system, thier is a sort of vigilante law going on among prisoners that can't be stopped.
I say that it is sad that the priest corrupted the Catholic Church with his atrocities and met an untimely death at the hands of another corrupt individual. His actions put him where he was, Justice was served in the courthouse, not in the jail, and Geoghan's killer will be judged by a higher power than we.

If you look at the media, it is thier job to report, how it comes about is another story.

Thousands of children are molested every year by public school teachers, yet I've never seen one news story about how the teachers' unions fight extensive background checks and other safeguards.

Why is that? Because the media likes the teachers' unions. The teachers' unions are reliably leftist.

What a news story is supposed to do is report the facts as they are and let the reader make thier own assumptions.

Except that such unbiased news stories cannot ever exist. All news is selected information. All selection contains bias.

Now we all know that we are human, and personal emotions can find thier way into what is written, but to categorize every journalist, etc.. into one category isn't nice.

I really don't give a flying fig what's nice or not nice. The media has declared war on God and traditional morality. They are, almost to a man, scum who lie for a living.

The few honest journalists out there readily admit this sad fact.