Thread on why it might make sense that there's no serious vetting process for questions to the Pope, why he just goes adlib when he talks, etc-maybe most curiously of all why a guy who made a film titled, 'Oy Vey, My Son is Gay' had special access to uncut papal material.

It's not just the Pope's fault.
The dicastery for communications (DfC) is a mess.
Two members are prefects of Curial congregations.
One is the *patriarch* of the Maronites.
Consulters include the chairman of EWTN, Fr. Martin, Graham Ellis, deputy director of BBC Radio + others:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/segreterie/segreteria-comunicazione/documents/segreteria-per-comunicazione_profilo_en.html
This isn't the original body - Monsignore Dario Edoardo Viganò used to be the prefect, and was switched out for the layman Dr Ruffini later. In the link you can see other appointments - it's still BASICALLY just a skeleton crew. HOWEVER:

The main problem here is that most of these Fathers are taken from all over the place, and already have a lot on their plate. Hello, a Patriarch of a community on the verge of destruction in its homeland? Excuse me? Prefects of other curial bodies? Not enough importance given.

We are living, whether we like it or not, in an age whose tech and infrastructure mandate a 'celebrity papacy', while also making Rome more equidistant to all dioceses through the internet and modernised curial bodies. The Press Office, in such a world, is immensely important.

To illustrate this point - 2 years after the DfC's formation, wherein various different Curial bodies were merged (see 1st link), Pope Francis gives an address in 2017 wherein he insists on the importance of the DfC's work. Some observations: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2017/may/documents/papa-francesco_20170504_plenaria-segreteria-comunicazione.html

1st img: The dicastery was formed in 2015 and in 2017 the Pope gives his address - after TWO YEARS, he is still telling them to hurry up and start employing/training personnel properly.
2nd img: 'Apocalyptic'?! It seems that they know they're underqualified + bewildered.

2018 Francis renames the body from 'secretariat for communicaton' to DfC. 2019 he gives an address - he chides them tongue in cheek for not working multiple times, and makes fun of them saying that they will fall asleep during speeches.

He even awkwardly hands the speech over to the prefect, which obviously wasn't the original plan, since Dr Ruffino then has to awkwardly thank himself in the Pope's words. The whole thing screams, 'Can you actually work, please? We need it.' See below: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2019/september/documents/papa-francesco_20190923_dicastero-comunicazione.html

They didn't meet up for FOUR YEARS.

https://www.comunicazione.va/en.html 
This is their official website outside of http://vatican.va .
@HolySeePress - These are the guys who are *clearly* sleeping - descriptions below from the original statutes 1 year after the DfC's founding and the DfC website.
https://www.comunicazione.va/en/chi-siamo/storia.html

Current director for the Holy See press office: Dr Matteo Bruni. The office that failed to get us translations, or even texts at all, of many of the Pope's interviews on the Vatican website, let alone in English, as well as aforementioned nonsense. Directors before him below:

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/accrediti/pubblico/accredito.html

Webpage on http://vatican.va  for "Accreditation of journalists and media operators."
Haven't read through this yet. Might do it later, but you guys should probably take a look too.

https://www.comunicazione.va/en/servizi/media-projects.html

Useful for the same purpose. Probably an idea to focus on these 2 links for further research, might do this tomorrow.