Thoughts on SpiritDaily....?

lynnfiat · Nov 19, 2017

Yes,

Mark1 said: ↑

... I admit, I go there, daily, to catch up on various things, spiritual and Catholic. And, I'm someone who keeps up on politics. With that, it seems "to me" that SpiritDaily tends to leave out (not entirely) political articles which would make Trump look good or his opponents look bad, in favor of even the slightest bit of news which makes Trump look bad. It's all subjective, and certainly one can argue I'm being subjective. But, it's my opinion.
...Whatever anyone wants to say about Trump, as a Catholic independent, I see a guy trying to ensure religious liberty (which doesn't mean giving a pass to bigotry), trying to curtail abortion via executive orders and Supreme Court picks, and trying to dampen the PC culture and culture of overly big, unaccountable government. No one else was going to do these things with such conviction. While SpiritDaily certainly doesn't come across as a left wing site, they often do post articles against Trump which seem to be the slightly slanted ones which you would find in the mainstream media or on left wing sites.
...I wonder if anyone else detects this admittedly "slight" tendency on their part.
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I have detected this also. Michael Brown was a good investigative reporter, but keeps too much on politics and stretches his own opinion by posting too much anti-Trump and not enough positive Trump. I don't think I have ever read anything posted on his site saying how pro-life Trump is. If we can get that right - I believe God will spare us graver chastisements than perhaps we deserve.

lynnfiat · Nov 19, 2017

padraig said: ↑

Michael Harold Brown was born in St. Mary's Hospital in Niagara Falls, N.Y. March 5, 1952, with twin sister Maureen. He is the son of Harold and Rose Brown. Harold was a CPA and Rose was a school teacher. They had eight children. Brown attended 24th Street Grammar School, Gaskill Junior High School, Niagara Falls High School, and Fordham University in New York City, where he obtained a degree in communications, specializing in print journalism. He interned at Newsday on Long Island. Upon graduation he was hired as a general assignment reporter for The Binghamton, New York, Sun-Bulletin. In 1976 he authored his first book, a journalistic and scientific look at those who claimed psychokinesis. In 1977 he rejoined The Niagara Gazette as a full-time reporter, covering outlying cities and towns and focusing on toxic-waste dumps in the towns of Lewiston and Porter. He then became the city hall reporter for Niagara Falls and a columnist. It was during this time that his focus turned to a toxic dump in the city itself, which soon became famous as "Love Canal." Through the grace of God, Love Canal grew into a major national and international story and sparked interest in the toxic waste problem. Michael also uncovered other toxic-waste threats. Michael's reporting was nominated for three categories of the Pulitzer Prize and drew a special award from the Environmental Protection Agency. President Carter declared Love Canal a national disaster. Michael then wrote a book for Pantheon (a division of Random House) entitled Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals, which was adapted for articles in The New York Times Magazine (three times), the Atlantic Monthly, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Family Weekly (now USA Today Magazine), and other magazines and major newspapers. The book drew many reviews and Michael appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including national ones such as Today, Nightline, Larry King (radio), and McNeil-Lehrer. He lectured at more than a hundred colleges and universities for Royce-Carlton Lectures. He has spoken or appeared on media in more than 400 cities and towns in America and has traveled abroad extensively. He also wrote a book about air contamination called The Toxic Cloud. A book called The Search for Eve (Harper and Row, on paleoanthropology and mitochondrial DNA ancestral research) included a trip to deepest Africa. In the early 1980s, while writing a book about the Mafia for Simon & Schuster, he experienced a dramatic return to his Catholic faith (detailed in his book Prayer of the Warrior). His other books include Witness (for Faith Publishing, with Josyp Terelya), The Final Hour, The Trumpet of Gabriel, The Day Will Come, The Last Secret, Secrets of the Eucharist, After Life, Seven Days With Mary, The Bridge to Heaven, Sent To Earth, The God of Miracles, Tower of Light, The Other Side, and a novel, The Seven. His newest book is The Spirits Around Us. He and wife Lisa have three children, Elizabeth Grace, Joseph Michael, and Mary Rose, plus a parrot, Mikie, and are founders of the Catholic news website, www.spiritdaily.com. They live near St. Augustine, Fl. Michael has traveled throughout Europe and other places researching apparitions of the Blessed Mother and spiritual phenomena.

http://spiritdaily.com/michaelbrownbio2.htm

I understand that Newsday where Michael did his internship has a strong left wing bias.

However I have read his books and there is no doubt he is a very good Catholic indeed. But I suspect he would not be a Trump fan. Nor indeed am I.
Here is a good video from him, very interesting.

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Newsday is ultra left-wing!

lynnfiat · Nov 19, 2017

Dolours said: ↑

I'm not familiar with Spirit Daily. I think that I may have visited website to read something linked in a post on this forum but I don't recall what it was about.

Watching Raymond Arroyo's programme on EWTN a while ago I was shocked to learn that very little if any of US AID money was finding its way to persecuted Christians in the Middle East. $1 Billion had be allocated for persecuted minorities but it was mainly being channeled via the UN. If that was reported on any other of the regular Catholic media I missed it. President Trump is taking measures to ensure that the Christians and other persecuted minorities like the Yazidis will get aid due to them by sending the money direct to groups working with them. Have you seen that reported in any of the regular Catholic news media? I haven't other than on EWTN. Did Spirit Daily report it? Perhaps they didn't report it because there was a very mealy mouthed response from the people at the US Bishops' Catholic Charities organisation. I think that their initial response was that they would continue to work with UN agencies. Here's a link to Raymond Arroyo's programme where he discusses the matter with Congressman Frank Wolf. The whole programme was interesting but if you haven't time to watch all of it, the discussion lasts about ten minutes, starting at about 9:05 on the video..

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Raymond Arroyo is the best news reporter we have - and Mother Angelica loved him!

Mark1 · Nov 19, 2017

Denise P said: ↑

Back in 2011 I went to Medugorje with Michael Brown and his family. He is a very devout Catholic and seems to take his mission in life to spread the faith through his books and website very seriously. I did ask him myself what his “go to” news web site was and he said CNN. I never forget that when I read the news articles on the right hand column. He may not be left wing but if his “go to” news source is CNN he is surely influenced by them.
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...interesting.....and telling, at least to me.

Mark1 · Nov 19, 2017

Dolours said: ↑

I'm afraid that there aren't any similar websites I can recommend because I'm really not familiar enough with any of them. The best thing to do is take the good and leave the rest. I believe that it is unwise for Catholics to become overly attached to secular politicians or political parties. If all people (including clergy) who claim to be Catholic put faith before politics and voted accordingly, the politicians would have far more respect for our core beliefs because they would be very careful not to alienate such a large voting bloc. The very least I expect from Catholic media when reporting on current affairs is that they give credit where credit is due and call out pure evil even when that evil is being perpetrated by the party or politicians they prefer.

The US Bishops claimed that the Democrats duped them over the contraception mandate in Obamacare. Looking at the likes of Cardinal Cupich and others, I'm not convinced that they were duped. In fact the more I read about him and other members of the US hierarchy the more convinced I am that they knew exactly what would happen and gave it their support anyway. They certainly gave precious little support to the Little Sisters of the Poor. What happens in the US Church matters because it has an impact all across the globe. The US Church has a great deal of influence in developing countries because money talks and American Catholics are generous. When the Democrats were in power they were engaged in cultural colonisation of poor countries yet the US Bishops went ahead and supported them anyway. What does that say about the Bishops' priorities? Had Hillary Clinton been elected, I have no doubt that Catholic medical services in the Third World would have been forced to perform abortions or lose all foreign aid. Why on earth would any Catholic, let alone a Bishop, see that as caring for the poor? I think that Pence is the real Christian influence in the Trump administration. Their personalities are polar opposites yet Pence is managing to make some progress on correcting the dreadful evils perpetrated by the Democrats. You don't have to be a Trump lover to acknowledge that, yet some Catholic bloggers and news outlets seem to be afraid to do so for fear of upsetting Democrats who have actually persecuted people for their Christian faith. That makes no sense to me.
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...good points

HeavenlyHosts · Nov 19, 2017

Well, Michael Brown was young when he interned at Newsday. He has changed a lot since then. By his own admission, he had a radical conversion as an adult and came back to his Catholic roots. You guys don't want to know what I was like in my early 20's! I won't put that on my resume! Thank God we can change by His grace.
However, his go-to news source is CNN?

Carol55 · Nov 19, 2017

HeavenlyHosts said: ↑

Well, Michael Brown was young when he interned at Newsday. He has changed a lot since then. By his own admission, he had a radical conversion as an adult and came back to his Catholic roots. You guys don't want to know what I was like in my early 20's! I won't put that on my resume! Thank God we can change by His grace.
However, his go-to news source is CNN?
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HH,

I have only read a little of his writings, I think that some are very good.

I agree with your post, maybe his go-to news source is CNN because he wants to rebut a lot of what they state. ???

Praetorian · Nov 19, 2017

lynnfiat said: ↑

Raymond Arroyo is the best news reporter we have - and Mother Angelica loved him!
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Dittos!!!

garabandal · Aug 13, 2018

Bump

I really think Michael Brown has lost the plot when he links to articles from the British newspaper The Guardian

https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/can-pope-still-connect-with-a-changed-ireland

jerry · Aug 13, 2018

garabandal said: ↑

Bump

I really think Michael Brown has lost the plot when he links to articles from the British newspaper The Guardian

https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/can-pope-still-connect-with-a-changed-ireland
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Can you offer an example of a Guardian article he linked to?

Dolours · Aug 13, 2018

jerry said: ↑

Can you offer an example of a Guardian article he linked to?
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Garabandal gave you an example in the Spirit Daily link. Spirit Daily quoted part of a Guardian article (see "From the Guardian" clearly printed beneath the headline). The words "For full story" clearly printed at the bottom of the page are a link to the Guardian.

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