Thank you to everyone for making 2012 the best year ever for TheMediaReport.com – now in its ninth year! Our readership continues to grow dramatically, thanks to you. We are very grateful! We figured we would close out the year with … [Read more...]
‘My Worst Nightmare’: Falsely Accused Priest Bemoans Slow Church Response
October 29, 2012 By
A number of Irish media outlets have previously relayed the ordeal of Rev. Oliver Brennan, a priest who was falsely accused of sex abuse dating back some thirty years earlier. However, as the Irish Catholic newspaper now reports, while … [Read more...]
Old News Becomes New News? Hollywood Plans Film About Boston Globe’s 2002 Church Abuse Coverage
October 23, 2012 By
The Hollywood industry newspaper Variety is reporting that a director has been assigned to command a movie about the Boston Globe's relentless reporting in 2002 about the Catholic Church abuse scandals. Yet again we see that the media … [Read more...]
Desperate to Stir Up Any Publicity: SNAP Smears TWO Innocent Clerics in Less Than a Week
October 15, 2012 By
Is the anti-Catholic group SNAP running out of Catholic clerics to target and resorting to attacking innocent men? It sure seems like it. Even though an abuse accusation against Wheeling, West Virginia, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield was … [Read more...]
School Is Back In Session, and the Epidemic of Teacher Sex Abuse Continues Unabated; Predictably, the Media Is Uninterested
October 9, 2012 By
A few weeks ago, police arrested Glendale, Arizona, public school teacher John Todorich for luring a minor over the Internet for sex. But the arrest should not have been a surprise. In 2010, three adult witnesses reported that they saw the … [Read more...]
Here We Go Again: Trailer For Upcoming Film Rehashes 2010 Smear by NY Times Against Pope Benedict
August 21, 2012 By
[Click here for the complete index of our criticism of Mea Maxima Culpa.] The trailer for an upcoming film about an abusive Catholic priest in the 1970s appears to rehash the bogus attack on Pope Benedict XVI in March 2010 by the New … [Read more...]
Minn. Supreme Court Rejects ‘Repressed Memory’ Junk Science Against Priest, Media Yawns
July 31, 2012 By
Last Wednesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court flatly rejected the psychological theory of "repressed memory" as bogus. The Court declared that scientific studies that have tried to prove the bogus theory have "lacked … [Read more...]
Philly Inquirer Rebroadcasts Wholly Discredited Claim of Abuse Against Bishop
July 30, 2012 By
Witnesses have now come forward to thoroughly discredit a specious claim that Wheeling, West Virginia, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield committed abuse decades ago, yet one would hardly know this from reading the Philadelphia Inquirer, which … [Read more...]
Eye-Opening Claim: Child Abuse in Boys Scouts ‘Dwarfs That Which We’ve Seen In the Catholic Church’
July 9, 2012 By
A televised report from an ABC affiliate in Phoenix has built upon the recent revelation that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) kept files on thousands of cases of child sex abuse. The voluminous amount of stomach-turning abuse cases … [Read more...]
Network Provides Its Idea of ‘Fresh Allegations of Ignoring Child Abuse’ in Catholic Church
July 5, 2012 By
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) recently posted a story with the alarming headline, "Catholic church faces fresh allegations of ignoring child abuse." Indeed, the idea that the Catholic Church – now in 2012 … [Read more...]
