Faith, religion and all that stuff is a subject that the media treats with a great deal of care (except if they want to rile up some anti-Muzzie hatred of course). So I was quite surprised at how the the Daily Terror's standards have dropped with this piece.
A WOMAN cured of inoperable lung and brain cancer through prayers to Mary MacKillop has broken her silence, 16 years after being cured of the disease.Kathleen Evans, 66, a self-confessed "ordinary woman" from Lake Macquarie beat an aggressive cancer which riddled her body, with the help of Mother MacKillop.
A woman was saved where medicine had failed by the spirit of a woman who died over a hundred years ago, so declares journalist Clementine Cuneo. Oh but global warming, now that's CRAZY! Angels and a magical invisible man in the sky control the climate.
Ummm, OK.
It's obviously a fantastic thing that the woman, who thought all hope was lost won her battle against cancer. I cant say that Mary Mackillop didn't save her life, but the Terror for a mainstream news organisation to declare a miracle as fact in a news story is just a bit rich if they want to be taken seriously.
In contrast, here is how the ABC handled the story.
The woman said to have been miraculously cured of inoperable cancer after praying to Mary MacKillop has been identified for the first time and has spoken of her experience.
Better, respectful to the woman's beliefs and leaves the judgement to others.
And given opinion editor Tim Blair's recent jihad against scientists one cant help but wonder how the Terror can harm their credibility further. Perhaps a return to angel, UFO and Elvis sightings.
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