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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Sat Jun 23, 2012, 01:08 PM Jun 2012

Vatican Gets Fox Media Adviser [View all]

Source: Associated Press

ATICAN CITY (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the Fox news correspondent in Rome has been brought in by the Vatican to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with one of its most serious scandals in decades.

People familiar with the move told AP on Saturday that Greg Burke will become the senior communications adviser in the Vatican's secretariat of state.

Burke said Saturday he had no comment, as did the Vatican spokesman.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/06/23/world/europe/ap-eu-vatican-communications.html?_r=1&hp

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Vatican Gets Fox Media Adviser [View all] SecularMotion Jun 2012 OP

Pretty shrewd plan really Turbineguy Jun 2012 #1

I believe it is a perfect fit. A marriage made in hell. olegramps Jun 2012 #17

faux news and the vatican are the same...they make a perfect pair.. movonne Jun 2012 #20

well i think we can rule out a search for the truth ever coming out of those folks dembotoz Jun 2012 #2

Anyone got a picture of a Borgia doing a face palm? hedgehog Jun 2012 #3

hedgehog Diclotican Jun 2012 #22

"Birds of a feather flock together." nt ladjf Jun 2012 #4

"Some people say" that the real problem w/ the Vatican is with the people who point .... Botany Jun 2012 #5

Unsurprisingly, the Catholic Church chooses the wrong side once again. FreeBC Jun 2012 #6

Well, that pretty much proves it. Fox is a PR propaganda institute BlueCaliDem Jun 2012 #7

Man, this speaks volumes! KansDem Jun 2012 #8

The boy asked for it. pennylane100 Jun 2012 #15

Secretariat was their PR person? Fearless Jun 2012 #9

Too bad Aldous Huxley isn't still around to add an "afterword" to "The Devils of Loudun" villager Jun 2012 #10

great lobbying job oldhippydude Jun 2012 #11

The "nazi" pope probably idolized Goebbels as a child too just1voice Jun 2012 #12

A match made in Heaven ! Trajan Jun 2012 #13

Fox's spin doctors are the best. The frogmarch Jun 2012 #14

Wont stop that new loudmouth mucky muck. He is a loose cannon. WingDinger Jun 2012 #16

K&R DeSwiss Jun 2012 #18

.. tawadi Jun 2012 #26

How about..... DeSwiss Jun 2012 #29

Trick question? tawadi Jun 2012 #31

Separated at Birth? calimary Jun 2012 #32

Well, everybody know where this is heading,,,, benld74 Jun 2012 #19

What, The Vatican Passed Over This Fox News Person DallasNE Jun 2012 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author PostCapitalist Jun 2012 #23

Villains of the World, Unite! Vidar Jun 2012 #24

Churches need to add Pre Fab Sprout Cruel as their hymns. methodman Jun 2012 #25

Was the point in the banking fraud to channel money to Fox or the JDPriestly Jun 2012 #27

I thought this was an Onion piece..... seriously? Hahahahahaaaa! glinda Jun 2012 #28

George Harrison had it sussed. Doc_Technical Jun 2012 #30

Greg Burke - Fox News and Opus Dei GreatCaesarsGhost Jun 2012 #33

If anyone can help repair their reputation after that molestation business Incitatus Jun 2012 #34