POPE COMPARES DISINFORMATION IN THE MEDIA TO FASCINATION WITH FECES

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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 7 (UPI) — Pope Francis compared the media’s fascination with telling only part of a story to coprophilia, an interest in fecal matter, in an interview Tuesday.

Speaking in Rome with representatives of Tertio, a Belgian Catholic publication, he was asked about the responsibility of the media; his response focused on the harmful effects of the spread of disinformation.

“A thing that can do great damage to the information media is disinformation: that is, faced with any situation, saying only a part of the truth, and not the rest. This is disinformation. Because you, to the listener or the observer, give only half the truth, and therefore it is not possible to make a serious judgement.