Since Pope Benedict XVI ignited a firestorm of controversy about AIDS and condoms, he has been criticized a lot mainly in the blogsphere.
As expected, mainstream media dealt with the news when the pope made his comment but it is not news any longer in the print media. Instead, bloggers are creating a longer tail of news distribution and debates. When I searched “pope, aids, condom” in Google Blog Search, I got 10,000 posts that produced in the past week only.
What is interesting is that the pope’s comment has become to get some support – not enough yet to win the debate. LifeSiteNews.com released
Harvard AIDS Expert Says Pope is Correct on Condom Distribution Making AIDS Worse.” and the news has received an attention among bloggers.The news introduces Dr. Green’s comment: The pope is correct [...] There is [...] a consistent association shown by our best studies, including the U.S.-funded ‘Demographic Health Surveys,’ between greater availability and use of condoms and higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates.
Dr. Edward Green is Director of of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard School of Public Health. Interestingly, LifeSite News.com is a non-profit Internet service dedicated to issues of culture, life, and family. The news has written from a conservative standpoint.
It is impossible and meaningless to tell who is correct. There is no one right solution for AIDS prevention specially for African people. There are cultural differences that Western AIDS experts cannot understand, the problems are too epidemic to solve, and there are few financial resources, and so on.
I want therefore to urge the pope, opinion leaders and the media to be more cautious
when making comments on AIDS issues in Africa. A Korean proverb says,
A frog is killed by stone thrown without purpose.
One quick question in mind: Why has Dr. Green’s opinion been able to appear only in LifeSiteNews.com? – Is it because the media has no interest of information balance?
“the media has no interest of information balance”
is no revelation to me in my work.
Keep trying to speak the truth.
Matt
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