Cardinal Donald Wuerl said that the mainstream media networks for “missed the boat” with their failure to cover the Roman Catholic lawsuit over the contraception mandate, which he indicated derives from their political “mindset.”
“It seems to me that somehow they missed the boat. And they missed the story,” Wuerl said on Fox News Sunday when asked about the mere 19 seconds of broadcast time given by the CBS — ABC and NBC did not carry the story — to the lawsuit filed by 43 Catholic institutions against the Obama administration.
“it is puzzling because they are focusing so much attention on the pope’s butler,” Wuerl noted, who was caught leaking embarrassing papal correspondence to the Italian media.
Wuerl agreed that “political bias” influenced the lack of lawsuit coverage. “I think we have to look at it in the much larger picture,” he said. “And, certainly, people have their own mindset. That’s one of the reasons why we continue to say to our people, the issue is religious liberty.”
