We have said it many times: It is not about what it claims to be about. Simply put, the media's single-minded obsession over abuse in the Church from decades ago has almost nothing to do with abuse and everything to do with the … [Read more...]
It Was Never About Abuse: Famed Boston Globe Abuse Reporter Rezendes Finally Comes Clean
February 10, 2021 By
Happy Holidays: AP on Journalistic Jihad in December Doing Dumb Storyline Retreads Against Evil Catholic Church
January 2, 2020 By
In the month of December, the Associated Press published no less than five biased articles attacking the Catholic Church over abuse accusations against priests decades ago. Yet if one actually takes the time to labor through the articles, … [Read more...]
Phoning It In: Lazy AP Trio Discovers That Church Review Panels Actually Have Critics
November 25, 2019 By
Imagine a large private organization – with a membership of some 70 million people – sought to tackle the issue of sex abuse within its ranks by devoting the resources to voluntarily set up review panels throughout the country … [Read more...]
Stalking Ex-Employees? AP Advances Dumb Premise In Search of a Storyline
October 7, 2019 By
Imagine you work for an organization and that organization has a non-legal, ad hoc process whereby it decided whether you "could have" committed misconduct in your past. And if you were found "credibly accused" – … [Read more...]
Scandal Alert: AP Attacks Nonprofit For – Gasp! – Helping Accused Priests
July 30, 2019 By
It is truly hard to imagine a worse piece of sleazy journalism than this week's lengthy hit piece by the Associated Press targeting Opus Bono Sacerdotii, a small nonprofit that has been providing support to accused Catholic priests … [Read more...]
Media Finally Awakens As SNAP’s Leadership Suddenly Resigns Amid Lawsuits and Scandals
February 7, 2017 By
For many years at TheMediaReport.com, we have been saying that SNAP and its leadership – so beloved by the media for its constant bashing of the Catholic Church – was little more than a contingency lawyer front group disguised … [Read more...]
Willingly Manipulated: Media Touts Meaningless UN Committee Questioning of Catholic Church; More Free P.R. For SNAP
January 22, 2014 By
When an unknown and powerless group of bureaucrats from the United Nations somehow managed to question officials from the Vatican about the issue of sex abuse in the Catholic Church for several hours, the mainstream media was naturally more … [Read more...]
Catholic Abuse Audit Shows Current Accusations Are Down Again, But Media Highlights Decades-Old Claims
April 11, 2012 By
The newly released annual audit of abuse in the Catholic Church reports that only seven credible abuse allegations were made against Catholic priests by current minors in all of 2011. Yet nationally syndicated articles from the Associated … [Read more...]
At Abp. Chaput Presser, AP Shows Its Distaste for the Catholic Church
July 19, 2011 By
If anyone still has any doubt about the utter distaste that many in the media have for the Catholic Church, one does not need to look any further than the "question and answer" session during the press conference in Philadelphia … [Read more...]
Media Falls Way Short in Claiming Pope Has ‘Justified’ Condom Use
November 22, 2010 By
The media is practically falling over themselves with a report, propagated in part by the flimsy Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press, that Pope Benedict XVI has "justified" the use of condoms. (See this enormous (and … [Read more...]
