Chapter, Paragraph

 1   I, 1 |        the use people make of the media of social communication.
 2   I, 1 |      often shall say here - that "media" do this or that, these
 3   I, 1 |         choose whether to use the media for good or evil ends, in
 4   I, 1 |       particularly acute: Are the media being used for good or evil?~
 5   I, 2 |        itself as an experience of media (cf. Pontifical Council
 6   I, 2 |      change rapidly is making the media of communication even more
 7   I, 2 |        The range and diversity of media accessible to people in
 8   I, 2 |         Depending on how they use media, people can grow in sympathy
 9   I, 2 |           even those who shun the media can avoid contact with others
10   I, 3 |        knows, that requires using media (cf. Vatican Council II,
11   I, 4 |       document.~We say again: The media do nothing by themselves;
12   I, 4 |        enters their homes through media be in their children's interests.
13   I, 4 |    present in many sectors of the media.~The contents of the countless
14   I, 4 |       these people concerning the media are different from group
15   I, 5 |          itself in service to the media. For example, "the Church'
16   I, 5 |    culture of wisdom can save the media culture of information from
17  II, 6 |           makes it clear that the media are called to serve human
18  II, 6 |          as persons in community. Media do this by encouraging men
19  II, 7 |        Centesimus Annus, 34), and media play an indispensable role
20  II, 7 |          not function without the media. Remove them, and crucial
21  II, 8 |        the political process. The media draw people together for
22  II, 8 |  authentic political communities.~Media are indispensable in today'
23  II, 9 |       relieve the tedium of life.~Media also make it possible for
24  II, 10|              10. Educational. The media are important tools of education
25  II, 10|         of educational resources.~Media are standard instructional
26  II, 11|      greatly enriched through the media. They carry news and information
27  II, 11|     institutions.~Sometimes, too, media contribute to people's spiritual
28  II, 11|        Rome. And, over the years, media have brought the words and
29  II, 12|            as well as others, the media can be used to build and
30  II, 12|          is good. This is how the media can meet their obligation
31 III, 13|                           13. The media also can be used to block
32 III, 13|           distressingly common in media. Often, too, social communication
33 III, 14|                 14. Economic. The media sometimes are used to build
34 III, 14|  suffering are largely ignored by media even as others are reported;
35 III, 14|  information.~In such ways, then, media often contribute to the
36 III, 15|      Unscrupulous politicians use media for demagoguery and deception
37 III, 15|          drawing people together, media then serve to drive them
38 III, 15|        public opinion through the media instead of fostering informed
39 III, 15|       Vitae, 70).~Often, too, the media popularize the ethical relativism
40 III, 16|   superficiality and bad taste of media, and although they are not
41 III, 16|           is no excuse to say the media reflect popular standards;
42 III, 16|    carefully and truthfully, news media avoid or oversimplify them.
43 III, 16|  oversimplify them. Entertainment media feature presentations of
44 III, 16|    Violence in the Communications Media: A Pastoral Response, 10).~
45 III, 16|   excluded from access to popular media in some places and face
46 III, 16|    children and young people with media presentations that put them
47 III, 17|    Instead of promoting learning, media can distract people and
48 III, 17|          persons.~Sometimes, too, media are used as tools of indoctrination,
49 III, 18|         sides.~On the side of the media, these include ignoring
50 III, 18|           and skepticism. Today's media often mirror the post-modern
51 III, 18|   judgmental and negative view of media; failing to understand that
52 III, 18|      reasonable standards of good media practice like objectivity
53 III, 18|        glutted marketplace; using media as instruments for control
54 III, 19|                 19. In short, the media can be used for good or
55 III, 19|         communication through the media is not a utilitarian exercise
56 III, 19|         vehicle for ideology. The media can at times reduce human
57  IV, 21|         measure of the use of the media of social communication;
58  IV, 23|           lie in state control of media but in more regulation according
59  IV, 23|           frameworks within which media operate in some countries
60  IV, 24|         perhaps especially, where media are privately owned and
61  IV, 24|         ways. But decisions about media content and policy should
62  IV, 24|       specialization - organizing media to correspond to audiences
63  IV, 24|           not be carried too far. Media of social communication
64  IV, 25|           inform themselves about media - their structures, mode
65  IV, 25|           some form of continuing media education, whether by personal
66  IV, 25|        teaching about techniques, media education helps people form
67  IV, 25|         the Church should provide media education of this kind (
68  IV, 25|           of the influence of the media, should learn to use them
69  IV, 25|     Christ (cf. Gal 4:17-23). The media propose, and often impose,
70  IV, 25|           receiving and using the media, both critically and fruitfully" (
71  IV, 25|           to evaluate and use the media, by forming their consciences
72  IV, 25|          models of prudent use of media in the home. According to
73  IV, 25|       open to formation regarding media, resisting the easy path
74  IV, 26|             26. Besides promoting media education, the institutions,
75  IV, 26|     Beyond that, the Church's own media should be committed to communicating
76  IV, 26|           should encourage use of media to spread the Gospel (cf.
77  IV, 26|        the right of access to the media for this purpose. The right
78  IV, 26|           generally. Provided the media are "neutral, open and honest",
79  IV, 26|         people guidance regarding media and their sometimes discordant
80   V, 27| implications, of new and emerging media.~
81   V, 28|        are, and will remain, only media - that is to say: instruments,
82   V, 28|           The choice is ours. The media do not call for a new ethic;
83   V, 28|       role to play. Ethics in the media is not the business only
84   V, 29|           of all. In the world of media, moreover, the inherent
85   V, 29|        other social ills. Today's media vastly increase the outreach
86   V, 30|         who share her desire that media be used for the glory of
87   V, 33|        the heart of ethics in the media.~Vatican City, June 4, 2000,