Pope’s media message
Pope John Paul II says that the mass media often work against society by distorting reality and giving too much space to sex and violence. In a message for the Catholic Church’s Eighteenth World Day of Communication on June 3, the Pope also suggested that the public should form groups to monitor the news media and register complaints. Press, radio, and television were “very often, used against man ... be it in countries where the free flow of ideas is allowed, be it where freedom of expression is confused with irresponsible licence,” he said. People who worked in the news media should not corrupt the young with “the insistent and approving depiction of evil, violence, or moral abjection.” — Vatican City.
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