Michael Winters Asks If Archbishop Chaput Too Defensive As to Media (Living In the Catholic Internet Ghetto)

Michael Winters in his little corner of National Catholic Reporter rightly brings attention to Archbishop presentation and Q & A session with religion journalists last weekend.

See Silk on Chaput

He ends by saying:
"The only other thing about Chaput's address that jumped out at me was the sheer defensiveness of his speech. Coming on the heels of the media's coverage of Pope Benedict's successful trip to the UK, almost all of it favorable, that defensiveness seemed more than a little odd."

This is the problem. Chaput was talking to what was USA media. The USA media practically ignored the historic UK trip and has yet to really show what a success it was.

The same weekend Chaput was talking we were greeted instead by another unbalanced attack on Benedict by CNN. (See A much-needed response to the CNN Report ) and yet another female Catholic Priest story that was do horrible that Get Religion had to call it out. See Media ordains female priests . Oh and on Chaput and the media look at this That’s mighty Native American of you!

Now I am not picking on Winters. I think all Catholics that monitor Catholic news often get the false impression that the nation is following the Catholic news like we do. The internet gives a false view of that. While the Catholic Press and the UK press were covering Benedict it was clear 95 percent of what we were twittering and linking was not coming from the USA secular media.