Minnesota Public Radio’s ‘Betrayed By Silence’: A New Low In Vengeance Journalism

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TheMediaReport

David Pierre

For over a decade now, we at TheMediaReport.com have likely reviewed several thousand news articles, television episodes, radio interviews, and documentary films in our mission to encourage accuracy in the media’s coverage of the Catholic Church abuse story line.

However, we don’t believe we have seen a piece of media as grossly inaccurate and irresponsible as a recent multimedia special presentation produced by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), “Betrayed by Silence,” which purports to chronicle the history of the Catholic Church abuse scandal as it relates to Minnesota.

MPR’s not-so-hidden agenda

MPR’s multimedia program is so loaded with flat-out falsehoods and misrepresentations that one hardly knows where to begin.

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