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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News Reporter Hired as Vatican Media Adviser
ROME In an effort to shore up its communications strategy amid a widening leaks scandal in a troubled papacy, the Vatican has hired the Fox News correspondent in Rome as a senior communications adviser.
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The correspondent, Greg Burke, 52, who has covered the Vatican for Fox since 2001, will leave the network to help improve and coordinate the Vaticans various communications operations, Mr. Burke and the Vatican spokesman said.
Some Vatican watchers called the move a power play by media-savvy Americans including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops inside a Vatican hierarchy run by Italians whose most frequent communications strategy is to accuse their critics of defamation.
Mr. Burke is a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement, and his hiring underscores the groups role in the Vatican.
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The correspondent, Greg Burke, 52, who has covered the Vatican for Fox since 2001, will leave the network to help improve and coordinate the Vaticans various communications operations, Mr. Burke and the Vatican spokesman said.
Some Vatican watchers called the move a power play by media-savvy Americans including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops inside a Vatican hierarchy run by Italians whose most frequent communications strategy is to accuse their critics of defamation.
Mr. Burke is a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement, and his hiring underscores the groups role in the Vatican.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/world/europe/vatican-hires-fox-news-correspondent-as-media-adviser.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
I know, I know, this is the gray old lady of news, but who wants to start with the jokes? Oh the irony!
For the record, the Vatican is having a MAJOR scandal ongoing, and a few have even dared suggest Ratzinger step down as Pope.
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Fox News Reporter Hired as Vatican Media Adviser (Original Post)
nadinbrzezinski
Jun 2012
OP
blm
(113,040 posts)1. No surprise - Benedict is fascist Opus Dei Catholic. Murdoch is a global fascist.
Rev Moon, Bush family, Roberts' Supreme Court, and today's GOP are all fascist.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)2. You beat me to it!! like "birds of a feather?" nt
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)3. Why I said jokes
it is like not surprising...
And after all, I know I know, once a Nazi Youth...