Reports of rampant child sex abuse committed at an elementary school in Los Angeles continue to explode. On the heels of other recent shocking reports involving child sex abuse in L.A. schools, NBC4 in Los Angeles has reported: "On … [Read more...]
Where’s the Outrage? Another L.A. School Sex Abuse Shocker: 189 Abuse Claims at Just ONE School!
December 13, 2012 By
Kudos to L.A. Journalists: Their Investigations Uncover Widespread Cover-Ups of Abuse in Public Schools; But Rest of Media Snores
December 6, 2012 By
Reporters in Los Angeles are highlighting the fact that the criminal abuse of children is not really very bothersome to a lot of people, unless Catholic clergymen are involved. This past year has been a banner one for journalists in Los … [Read more...]
Rich Irony: Child Sex Abuse Issue Reaches the Top Echelon of the New York Times
November 21, 2012 By
As we have noted many times before, the media's obsession with decades-old sex abuse in the Catholic Church is more about its hatred for the Church than it is about sex abuse itself. Not surprisingly, the New York Times has obsessed … [Read more...]
Hysteria Down Under: As Commission Inquiry Approaches, Writers Warn of Anti-Catholicism in Australian Media Coverage
November 19, 2012 By
News of decades-old abuse by Catholic priests in Australia has now reached down under. The breathless reporting by Australian media, however, presages a media narrative in which reason, facts, and logic are ignored, and the media feeds on … [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...]
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...]
NY Times Loses It: Two Front-Page Stories and an Editorial For a Suspended Misdemeanor Sentence
September 10, 2012 By
If anyone needed another example of the New York Times' obsession with blasting the Catholic Church, one does not need to look further than the paper's coverage following the guilty verdict of Kansas City–St. Joseph Bishop … [Read more...]
Editorial Notices That Planned Parenthood ‘Probably Covers Up More Sexual Abuse of Children Than Any Other Institution in the United States’
September 3, 2012 By
Colorado Springs Gazette editor Wayne Laugesen has penned a must-read editorial in which he takes aim at the nation's selective outrage over child sex abuse. While the public and law enforcement have rightfully expressed outrage at sex … [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...]
Vatican Scores HUGE Court Victory, Media Sees No Big Deal
August 21, 2012 By
On Monday, The Holy See won an important court victory when a federal judge in Oregon decided that priests are not employees of the Vatican, as plaintiff attorneys suing the Catholic Church had long argued in an important case that was … [Read more...]
