The Washington Post, January 19th, 1994
Gustav Niebuhr's article on media coverage of religion {"Media Said to Ignore, Misrepresent the Spiritual," Religion, Jan. 1} makes valid points. However, one person he quotes, Stewart Hoover, associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado, is so far off base as to be insulting. Mr. Hoover says Catholic Church officials' criticism of some of the World Youth Day coverage may be based in "disappointment that their own `media strategy' did not perform as expected." He suggested the event was intended to "counterbalance" news stories of pedophilia. As the designer of the World You...
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