[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Driven by "powerful economic forces," the Pope claims, the "anti-Gospel" is spreading the idea that "one must live life as if God does not exist".

The "powerful economic forces" in question are the economic imperatives of commercial mass-market journalism. Those forces drive the superficiallity and negativity - in addition to the grandiose arrogance - of journalism.

All coalescing in the cynicism which says that you should do whatever you can get away with. The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.

[ninenot]

NOTHING actually matters but PR

I'll go you a step further--and add 'successful advertising.' Because IMHO, it's not PR--it's PROFITS.