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Why I don’t trust “the media”

Posted in Linky, Vice by Robert
Nov 08 2010
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So the Pope is in Spain, and he dedicates La Sagrada Familia – The Holy Family, for non-Spanish-readers – and all the news can say is that the Pope “rails” against gay marriage and abortion.

Being a Catholic, and a fan of Gaudi’s architecture, the inaccuracy and bias in these stories is blatant and obvious to me.

If that’s how they report on stuff I know something about, why should I trust them on stuff I don’t know anything about? That’s why I’m always looking for accurate sources of information.

By the way, check out the pix of the building itself available at Wikimedia Commons. That’s where I found this one:

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