Idle Mendacity: has some "Thoughts on World Youth Day"

Jack Bennett of Idle Mendacity makes Foolish observations of WYD and the Reasonable MSM's coverage of it. He concludes that MSM doesn't get it:

Take a look at the pictures below. See those people? See that pope? Don't they look solemn and happy and prayerful at the same time? Don't they look like they're enjoying themselves? Doesn't it make you wish (just a little) you could have been there too even if for just the experience? I know reading Stef's and Tim Drake's blogs from WYD and listening to Father Roderick's Catholic Insider podcasts and watching the coverage on EWTN, I can tell you I'm jealous I wasn't there.

Yet if you were to go by the media coverage (which in the US was barely a few seconds on the TV networks) the "Jesus" part of World Youth Day didn't exist. The reason that a million people turned out wasn't exactly clear. Look at the pictures and ask yourselves if anyone in the MSM understands what's going on.
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In the end the media went with the old tried and true. The old line that "Hundreds of thousands of youth came out to see the pope, but the majority don't agree with him on issues, especially on sex". I saw this exact thing (almost exactly as written above) on EuroNews after the final Mass. I also saw this line of thought on the BBC reporting on WYD. How they know the "majority" of those at WYD don't agree with the Pope, I don't know. Did they interview/poll everyone there? Of course not. They just think the young people don't agree with the Pope because the media doesn't and so that becomes the story. It was the story in every WYD under JP2 (and when he visited the US) and it became the story again. The media only want to talk about women's ordination, contraception, homosexuality and abortion. Tim Drake calls this the WOCHA mantra and how the networks are only interested in interviewing people who disagree with Pope. Notice how we always seem to get a quote from someone who thinks the Church is out of touch and rarely someone who agrees with the Pope? Think that's an accident? GetReligion wrote about this kind of reporting (and underreporting of WYD as a whole) after the event was over.

What can Fools expect from the Reasonable. Let's not forget the foundation of Reasonable thinking: Only secularism matters, and only the Great-I-Am Agenda (in pursuit of the One Thing that Matters) counts. All this God talk is just too Foolish. It's fine for those that want values, as long as they hold them in private! The Public Square is not for values (unless they're Reasonable) but for facts. Since they don't take God seriously, the Reasonable won't take seriously the Fool's desire to celebrate him.

They only understand the Church as an institution of Fools. They only see it as an outdated yet obstinate impediment to the Agenda. Of course Reasonable MSM are going to WOCHA mantra the coverage up!

It doesn't matter. MSM pundits can blather on about those that disagree with the Pope on WOCHA all they want. The facts remain undisputed. At least 1/2 million people showed up. Up to 1 million showed up for the Pope's Mass. These pilgrims generally were under the age of 35. They came from all corners of secular Europe and the globe. They celebrated Christ in secular Europe's heartland. People have eyes and can see this. They have ears and can hear. They know what they see and hear...and what the MSM aren't saying.

Mouth-foaming. Carpet. Broom. Let the Reasonable keep it up. The world could use the clean-up!