Corporate Censorship - Even U.S. Cathlolic Bishops Agree "health care is a human right."

Most news organizations focus on the areas of division such as abortion with respect to Catholics and health care reform. However, the fact of the matter is that the Catholic Church in the U.S. does agree with that health care is a human right, and that it should be made universally available. Yet, you never hear this. Why? Why is it that the only thing we hear about the stance of the Catholic church with respect to health care reform is on the issue of abortion? Is this a coincidence. Or, is the corporate media trying to blind us to the fact that the Catholic church doctrine actually supports the goal of universal health care.

http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/respecting_the_just_rights_of_workers.pdf

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The starting points for the agreement were the recognition that Catholic Social Teaching holds that “health care is a human right…both a service and a ministry… is a fundamental social good that is essential to the well-being of local communities and society” and the affirmation of “two key values: (1) the central role of workers themselves in making choices about representation and (2) the principle of mutual agreement between employers and unions on the means and methods to assure that workers could make their choices freely and fairly.”

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or birth control, thus making it an intrusion of religion into domestic policy? That would be my guess. :shrug:

Ignore the fact that for all other health care, Catholic doctrine supports universal care? If the media was consistent, I would not mind, but instead, we have this cherry picking. Pope Benedict makes statements criticizing capitalism, and these statements are generally ignored. However, a few Notre Dame supporters oppose the President's commencement speech, and this makes front page news with RNC denouncing the President's speech.

Its the cherry picking by the media that we should be worried about.

since it is the only avenue most of us have for determining the nature of what is happening beyond our own ability to gather and assess information.

The news has always been a double-edged sword, and partisanship is nothing new. But so many of our news outlets are being controlled by the same media empire, with the same ideological goals... it's exceptionally deadly to the health of a democracy. Queen Elizabeth I used to refer to this kind of "media" control as "tuning the pulpits" to produce a uniform message (back in the day when the English people's main source of info from government was dispensed through sermons).

Even in the heyday of revolutionary debate in America, from about 1760-1800, there were a broad range of political pamphlets circulatimg; most of them were much harsher on the people representing various issues than even we are today, but at least you got all sides of the mudslinging, and some darned good theoretical debate thrown in to boot.