"The press . . . just doesn't get religion." - William Schneider
Readers who have been following this weblog through the years are probably familiar with the following passage in the Associated Press Stylebook. We’ve been dealing with it since the earliest days of GetReligion’s existence (click here for one ancient example). Yes, we are talking about the “fundamentalist” label. That’s the familiar F-word that philosopher Alvin [Read More...]
It’s becoming clear that The Dallas Morning News has no regard for the F-word. Faith, that is. I made that statement last month after the Texas newspaper allowed holy ghosts to haunt yet another major profile. But I come today not to bury the Morning News, but to praise it: Apparently, somebody at the highest echelon of that [Read More...]
Earlier this week, I critiqued an Associated Press story on the hullabaloo caused by a newspaper column in which a pastor’s wife referred to Southern Baptists as “the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians.” I closed that post by questioning the AP’s sourcing at the end of the story: Here’s my journalistic question: If [Read More...]
If you read GetReligion with any frequency, you know the drill. We critique mainstream media coverage of religion and often point out holy ghosts in news coverage. What are holy ghosts? Let’s go back to tmatt’s description at the very beginning: They are facts and stories and faces linked to the power of religious faith. [Read More...]
Forgiveness is such a simple word But it’s so hard to do when you’ve been hurt The above lyrics from Kellie Pickler’s “I Wonder” provide a fitting introduction to this post. On this week’s Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss forgiveness and media coverage of it. We focus on two recent GetReligion posts touching [Read More...]
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