Tuesday, April 29, 2008
MEDIA OUT OF TOUCH WITH CONSUMERS OF MEDIA
Bishop Philip Tartaglia says there is a "fundamental disconnection" between media and consumers. Endorsing Pope Benedict's doctrine of "info-ethics", the bishop says the media have lost ethical underpinnings.
In a message sent to all of Scotland's 500 Catholic parishes for the 42nd World Communications Day, Bishop Philip Tartaglia claims that "a fundamental disconnection between the provider and the consumer" has occurred in the media....
In it, the Catholic leader suggests that "mass communications can fairly be charged with losing the ethical underpinning that once existed [in it]".
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