Thread by @jdflynn

I wonder if the ⁦@IrishTimes⁩ will release the transcript of this interview.

Either Dublin’s next Archbishop is being misunderstood, or there are some real issues here. irishtimes.com/news/social-af…

But if the @IrishTimes doesn’t release the transcript, this interview, interpreted through the lens a reporter with questionable expertise in the subject matter, can’t really be taken seriously.

Rest assured though that both and left will find ways to exploit it for the clicks, without anyone calling attention to the subpar act of journalism it is in the first place.

In short, it’s a travesty that religion is often reported so poorly, and then poor reporting is politically exploited. But that’s what happens folks.

What the archbishop-elect is quoted as saying about women priests is so ambiguous out of context.

Did he mean sacred tradition? Did anyone ask what he meant? Does he accept or reject Ordinatio sacerdotalis? Did anyone know to ask?

I guess we’ll never know.

So bad reporting means there will be a Vortex ™ of videos saying the guy is a heretic, and a Tablet™ of commentary saying the guy is a hero, and we’ll have no idea what’s actually true.

Awesome. Wow.

*Butterfly meme* - Is this journalism?