{"id":2005,"date":"2026-03-17T09:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:35:20","slug":"pope-leo-worthy-journalism-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/pope-leo-worthy-journalism-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo: Worthy Journalism Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">I am neither American nor Catholic, but I found this fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-17-at-5.05.50-AM-1024x496.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2006\" style=\"width:626px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-17-at-5.05.50-AM-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-17-at-5.05.50-AM-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-17-at-5.05.50-AM-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-17-at-5.05.50-AM-1536x744.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-17-at-5.05.50-AM-2048x992.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And what Pope Leo said was sound: he urged journalists &#8220;to show the face of war and tell \u2060it through the eyes of the victims, so as \u200bnot to turn it into a video game.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He also said: &#8220;In the dramatic \u200bcircumstances of war, such as those we are experiencing, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda,&#8221; and that reporters must work &#8220;in verifying the news so \u200bas not to become a megaphone of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This is absolutely true and refreshingly subversive. I doubt most j-school students ever got this lecture from their professors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But it&#8217;s interesting and welcome nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am neither American nor Catholic, but I found this fascinating. And what Pope Leo said was sound: he urged journalists &#8220;to show the face of war and tell \u2060it through the eyes of the victims, so as \u200bnot to turn it into a video game.&#8221; He also said: &#8220;In the dramatic \u200bcircumstances of war, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,332,354,352,26,353,41,42],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-joshua-mcelwee","tag-pope-leo","tag-propaganda","tag-reuters","tag-the-mind-under-siege-mechanisms-of-war-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}