On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his concern about the media's message that it has been sending on violence, vulgarity, and consumer products. He suggested that an "info-ethics" is needed to supervise the media, like bioethics for medicine and science. It would be there to guarantee that human dignity is respected and maintain. The pope said " this is what happens when communication is used for ideological purposes or for the aggressive advertising of consumer products." Benedict also accused the media for distorting the views of families and social life, which is thought to be in reference to the media legitimizing same-sex unions. Though the pope did praise the media for spreading democracy, it did not hide the fact that he accused them for their inappropriate content. I think that the media has changed over the past couple of years in what they will show on television. I think that there is more violence and more vulgar things on television that in the past would have never been shown especially during the day but we do live in a country with freedom of speech and freedom of press so I do not think that the pope has any pull here. I think that it is fine that the church has their own beliefs about the way things should be but we live in such a diverse society that not everyone believes or thinks the same way. My first blog was on the pope and it seems to me that he is doing nothing but causing conflict. I understand that he is just expressing what he believes in but the world is changing a lot and there are a lot of people with different views that do not believe the same thing and do not want to be preached to and told what they should believe in.
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