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Media bias against conservatives is real, and part of the reason no one trusts the news now.
Gosh, ya really think people have "lost trust" in the drive by media? Frankly, I'm pretty skeptical of all media these days (even the Epoch Times and Chronicles which I read regularly), including many of the professional Catholics who run podcasts and relentlessly ask for money. I wish some of them would go get a real job.
I welcome anyone who visits my blog to follow Reagan's advice to "trust, but verify." I try to tell nothing but the truth, but my opinions can be wrong. And I've changed my opinion on occasion when I think it was wrong. There was a time when I believed all the lies about the SSPX being in schism. I know better now and happily attend an SSPX chapel where I will never be blessed by a guitar-bearing priest or be subjected to confetti vestments like those used at the opening Mass at Notre Dame in Paris. No one will ever demand that I stand for Communion like Cardinal Cupich did recently in Chicago. What a relief!
When people take issue with me courteously on the blog, I publish their comments. When they call me names and write dissertations filled with their own opinions expressed with anger and vitriol....I dump them in the digital version of the circular file.
But I will return to the beginning and say that today I am filled with hope. I hope The View goes under and the angry cackling hens all have more time to reflect and, perhaps, convert. I hope Rachel Maddow disappears into oblivion to join Don Lemon. Lemon, by the way, is starting a platform on X where I hope and expect he will be a monumental flop. Now if only Morning Joe would get the axe my cup would overflow.
I think when I finish the St. Andrew novena I will choose one to St. Joseph specifically aimed at those in the media who influence so many for good or ill. May they all be committed to the truth and leave their biases in the closet as was the commitment of journalism in days of yore. Give us truth-tellers, Lord. They seem to be a rarity in the media these days.
Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.
Er, the newspaper in your photo is The Times of London, not The New York Times.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Well that gave me a laugh and big dose of humility. My apologies to The Times of London. That's the New York Times in the new picture. And if it isn't who knows?
DeleteSpeaking of "professional Catholics" with podcasts, videos, websites, a pet priest upholding their particular cause, and merch to sell, I recently ordered an item from such Catholics. Next thing I knew I was on their email lists - both of them - as well as their mailing list, all asking for money.
ReplyDeleteAfter a month of deleting, unsubscribing and angrily tearing up letters, I sent them a "comment" in the contact section of their website stating that all I had wanted to do was buy the one particular item, that I was never going to donate anything to their income, that they were wasting money printing and sending letters in the mail, and that as a result of their money grubbing behavior, I was never going to buy anything from them again.
I received back a reply that, considering my "strong opinions", they were removing my email and home address from all correspondence, but they would still include me in their daily masses and pray for me. While I always appreciate prayers, Heaven and earth cannot persuade me enough to give up one cent of my money to them ever again.