The Bishop of the Diocese of Baní, Monsignor Víctor Masalles, has admitted that he had referred to the absence of leaders in the Church who serve as mediators for conflicting solutions, but he understands that this information was sought in an extensive 52-minute interview offered on a television program.
Out of context
The prelate compared his statements in this interview with those of the apostle Paul in his first letter, who had to write a second one in order to understand his preaching, as context sentences were taken out.
“And nowadays this is also done, this is done very easily, a piece of news is twisted to highlight what one wants and not what one is saying there, and that is why we see a phrase that says, when it was discovered that information was a business, the truth ceased to be important, “because many times the propagators of the news are not always interested in the truth, but in what they sell,” he expressed in the homily of the Mass on Monday XXII Ordinary Time Santa Rosa de Lima.
Faced with the reaction of others
prelates, such as the Archbishop of Santiago, Freddy Bretón on the statements of Monsignor Masalles in the interview on the program L’Hora 22, that in the Church “there is a leadership gap and this must be recognized,” the bishop he questioned whether emphasis should be placed on this part.
the interview
“For example the other day, a whole interview I had, 52 minutes, I was talking about anything but the topic and a sentence of something they asked me and that then appears in another newspaper that doesn’t it has nothing to do with this medium, take that phrase and put it as the center with some things I didn’t even say and here it is on the front page.But that’s what they sell, from what I said was true, that was a phrase that’s not that it wasn’t true but it gets like the emphasis on that and it turns around, people went out to look for the interview and then they said ‘you didn’t talk about it’ yes, yes, look “Well, that was a phrase I said at the minute, and people are surprised because when they see it they think it’s about that subject,” he added.
He added that “we see how sometimes intentionality is at the service of interests above that they tell you how to say, what to emphasize and how to sell more, but even if it’s not true, it doesn’t matter, but sell, this is when I say, when information became a business, then the truth does not matter, the important thing is that it is sold, and that is why gossip, lying, misinformation, are important, because they sell and because they influence and disarticulate the truths that a speech may be telling. “
The comparison between the interview and Masalles’ message in the homily was also presented this Tuesday morning on the program El Dia (Telesistema, channel 11), hosted by Huchi Lora, Edith Febles and Carolina Santana.