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 1   I, 1 |          policies, and content. They include public officials
 2   I, 2 |         and values. Not only do they transmit and receive information
 3   I, 2 |     these instruments but often they experience living itself
 4   I, 2 |      violence. Depending on how they use media, people can grow
 5   I, 4 |       do nothing by themselves; they are instruments, tools,
 6   I, 4 |  promote the public interest as they understand it. Readers and
 7   I, 4 |         and development so that they can lead happier, more productive
 8  II, 8 |         s democratic societies. They supply information about
 9  II, 8 |      and candidates for office. They enable leaders to communicate
10  II, 8 |    public about urgent matters. They are important instruments
11  II, 9 |     generations. In particular, they introduce children and young
12  II, 11|     enriched through the media. They carry news and information
13  II, 11|       ideas, and personalities; they serve as vehicles for evangelization
14  II, 11| catechesis. Day in and day out, they provide inspiration, encouragement,
15 III, 14|      job is to report things as they are. That undoubtedly is
16 III, 14|     that give rise to suffering they report. "It is necessary
17 III, 15|         and oppressive regimes. They misrepresent opponents and
18 III, 15|       today's culture of death. They participate in the contemporary "
19 III, 16|    taste of media, and although they are not obliged to be somber
20 III, 16|  obliged to be somber and dull, they should not be tawdry and
21 III, 16|  reflect popular standards; for they also powerfully influence
22 III, 16|         are no longer isolated. They benefit from an increase
23 III, 16|       increase in contacts, but they also suffer from the pressures
24 III, 18|       manipulative style, as if they were products competing
25 III, 19|      charity; and, in so far as they do that, they will be signs
26 III, 19|         so far as they do that, they will be signs of hope" (
27  IV, 22|        the communities to which they belong. This common good
28  IV, 23|         declare their opinions, they are not merely making use
29  IV, 23|   merely making use of a right. They are also performing a social
30  IV, 25|       discerning and selective. They should inform themselves
31  IV, 26|       Even though the questions they ask are "sometimes embarrassing
32  IV, 26|  disappointing, especially when they in no way correspond to
33  IV, 26|      neutral, open and honest", they offer well-prepared Christians "
34   V, 27|   workplaces - indeed, wherever they may be. It is commonplace
35   V, 28|       not call for a new ethic; they call for the application
36   V, 28|         of specialists, whether they be specialists in social
37   V, 29|  respect for human rights; will they be committed to the common
38   V, 29|        the common good? Or will they be selfish and inward-looking,
39   V, 29|        its quantity, its speed; they do not make the reaching
40   V, 30|     abyss without knowing where they are going" (Fides et Ratio,
41   V, 32| determination to tell them what they needed to hear, in a way
42   V, 32|       him, knowing this was how they would be drawn to him and
43   V, 32|         for every careless word they utter; for by your words