Thursday, June 16, 2005
Archbishop hits out at web-based media 'nonsense'
(via Drudge Report)
Here in Milwaukee, we have some experience with an Archbishop favoring policed conversation. As Karen Marie Knapp commented about our former Archbishop Rembert Weakland's dealings with Catholic Family Radio
That is, people could call in with a comment, without having to provide a name and address for a threatening letter from the Archdiocese's lawyers. Comments on Catholic Family Radio turned out to be motes, while the beam was elsewhere.
(via Drudge Report)
Speaking to a gathering of journalist, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, criticised the new on-line media.
He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was "close to that of unpoliced conversation".
Here in Milwaukee, we have some experience with an Archbishop favoring policed conversation. As Karen Marie Knapp commented about our former Archbishop Rembert Weakland's dealings with Catholic Family Radio
... he was also correct about that now-defunct radio network which claimed to be Catholic but specialized in a talk format completely unaccountable to anybody about calumny, detraction, and other offenses against truth.
That is, people could call in with a comment, without having to provide a name and address for a threatening letter from the Archdiocese's lawyers. Comments on Catholic Family Radio turned out to be motes, while the beam was elsewhere.
I would think archbishops have someone working for them with the job of keeping them from saying stupid things, but experience shows not.
