{"id":58727,"date":"2017-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/01\/24\/pope-francis-to-journalists-we-must-break-the-circle-of-focusing-on-bad-news\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:00:00","slug":"pope-francis-to-journalists-we-must-break-the-circle-of-focusing-on-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/01\/24\/pope-francis-to-journalists-we-must-break-the-circle-of-focusing-on-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to journalists: \"We must break the circle of focusing on bad news\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='paragraph'>Today the Vatican has announced the pope's message to media professionals on <span style='font-weight: bold;'>World Day of Social Communications. <\/span>Participants included various journalists, including CNN's Delia Gallagher, who reflected on the challenges of journalism today.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>DELIA GALLAGHER<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>CNN Correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'The news has its progression, its times. We want the truth immediately, now, and this is not possible. To understand information, to understand it in all its context, it often takes time.'<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>In his message, Pope Francis asks journalists to instill optimism in society, and to <span style='font-weight: bold;'>'break the circle of focusing on bad news.'<\/span> Ask to see the world with different eyes, eyes that convey hope.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>DARIO VIGAN\u00ed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>Prefect, Secretariat for Communication<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'The idea is to know how to move, reading reality in depth to open spaces of hope, true hope.'<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>The pope says that instilling hope is not ignoring the drama of suffering nor falling into a naive optimism. He says good news is the one that helps to promote active and responsible attitudes in people. Life, he says is not merely a 'succession of events.\u00e2?\u009d Hence the title chosen for this message is <span style='font-weight: bold;'>'Communicating Hope and Trust in our Time.'<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>JRB\/MB<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>MG<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>SV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>-PR<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Up:JRB<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 24, 2017. It was the Pope's Message for the World Day of Social Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GfzLFp50Imk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcomunicazionesocialeint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}