By Selwyn Duke

There’s an old patriotic joke about how the Soviet media spun a
two-auto race in which an American car bested a Russian one. Went the
reportage: “Russian car finishes second in race.

American car comes in next to last.”

But this joke has nothing on the modern Western media’s practices,
which were on full display in the coverage of a recent Vatican speech on
finances given by Pope Francis to visiting new ambassadors. For
instance, The Telegraph ran the headline,
“Pope Francis urges global leaders to end 'tyranny' of money.” Author
Nick Squires then went on to “explain,” “He [the pope] said free-market
capitalism had created a ‘tyranny’…. [That is,][u]nchecked capitalism
had created ‘a new, invisible, and at times virtual, tyranny’, said the
former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.”

The problem?

The pope never used the term “free-market capitalism.”

For that matter, he never mentioned capitalism or the “free market” at all.

Nor did his speech include the phrase the “tyranny of money.”

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