VATICAN CITY
AFP
By Francoise Kadri (AFP)
ROME — A scandal-hit Vatican, struggling to combat years of bad press, has hired American Fox News correspondent Greg Burke to modernise a communications strategy tainted by serious blunders in the past.
Burke told AFP he has been hired “primarily as a strategist” to “simplify the Vatican’s message (and) improve communications,” though Vatican watchers have said his appointment fails to tackle the real issues within the Holy See.
One of his main tasks, Burke says, will be “avoiding too many surprises.”
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