September 19, 2006 Vox Popular, Jim Kouri by Jim Kouri, CPP In an ABC News story by its Rome correspondent Martin Seemungal, Pope Benedict XVI was compared to an attack dog — the Rottweiler — during Seemungal’s extraordinarily biased coverage of the Muslim uprising over the Pontiff’s recent comments. At first reading, I had to remind myself I wasn’t on the Al-Jazeera News website. ABC News said: “Pope Benedict, nicknamed “God’s Rottweiler” because of his conservative views, staked out a much harder line right from the beginning.” Of course, ABC’s reporter doesn’t reveal to the reader who gave Benedict that...
