Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Now here's an example

of how the media distorts things with headlines.

Report: Church of England is racist

The use of the words 'unlikely' and 'sometimes' lead a thinking person to believe that yes, the system may be unfair or corrupted and there may be instances of racism, but not the the church, as a whole, is racist. I'm not saying that there isn't either overt or covert racism, only that the headlines express it in a particularly damning way when the evidence doesn't exactly spell that out. Aw, forget it.

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