Pope Francis tells journalists to get out from behind their computers In his message for World Communications Day, the pope warns against spreading recycled and unverified news Journalists demonstrate on January 2, 2021 after the death of one of their counterparts in the attack on Aden airport in Yemen. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP) Pope Francis has urged journalists not to remain entrenched in their offices, but to go out to see and verify the news where it is actually happening. "Original investigative reporting... is being replaced by a reportage that adheres to a standard, often tendentious narrative [that] is less and less capable of grasping the truth of things and the concrete lives of people, much less the more serious social phenomena," the pope laments in a message to mark the Catholic Church's 55th World Communications Day.