In reading an AP story last night about the death of Pope John Paul II, I was struck by the utter ignorance of whomever wrote the story. It said that he had begun beatification process of the so-called Hitler’s Pope — without saying that those stories had been heavily discredited. Then it said that his assassination attempt was a mystery (another AP dispatch said it was done by a “fanatical right-winger) even though just in the past two weeks, old Soviet archives that just were opened laid out how it was a hit job by the KGB, working through the … Continue reading Mainstream News Outlets Demonstrate their Ignorance — Again (Surprise, Surprise)