Pope Benedict also warns about media crisis

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0800447.htm

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a world where the media increasingly distort facts and manipulate minds, the communication industry needs an ethics code, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Just as bioethics guide workers in the field of medicine and science to protect human dignity, "many people now think there is a need, in this sphere (of communication), for info-ethics," the pope said in his message for World Communications Day, which will be celebrated May 4 in most countries.

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The theme is important, Pope Benedict said, because the mass media have experienced a "meteoric technological evolution" which has given communicators "extraordinary potential" as well as "appalling possibilities for evil that formerly did not exist.

"While the media always have had an enormous influence on people's lives and society, there seems to be a growing tendency today for communication workers to exploit the tools at their disposal "for indiscriminate self-promotion" or "to manipulate consciences," he said.

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The Pope has it 100 percent right and I'm sure he does not know even 10% of the insane abuse of people's minds that is taking place.