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It will debut next month from studios in Washington, and the Washington Post has a preview:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By planting a stake in Washington \u2014 in an office space near Capitol Hill \u2014 EWTN hopes to raise its profile on issues where religion converges with public affairs: abortion, contraception, stem cell research, immigration, the death penalty, terrorism and repression of Christians abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a deliberate choice to be in the midst of everything,\u201d said Michael P. Warsaw, EWTN\u2019s president and chief executive. \u201cWe hope it has an impact on policymakers and the inside-the-Beltway crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n

Experts on media and Catholic affairs said EWTN will fill a void, because there is no other daily news TV program that is pitched to the estimated 75 million Catholics in the United States. And while the network\u2019s guests include a steady diet of those who represent the conservative wing of the church, EWTN does not stoke right-wing fury like a Fox commentator.<\/p>\n

\u201cEWTN has a lot of people on its air, and they don\u2019t all sing from the same songbook,\u201d said John L. Allen Jr., a Vatican authority and senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.<\/p>\n

EWTN\u2019s influence, and presumably that of its newscast, derives in large measure from its devoted audience and sheer reach \u2014 there\u2019s hardly a place on Earth its signal does not go. Exact viewership numbers are impossible to know, especially because it\u2019s available in more than 140 countries and territories. Nevertheless, said Allen, EWTN is \u201cthe biggest game in town in the Catholic-broadcast universe. The big prize is trying to get on their air or get them involved in what you are doing.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026The host of \u201cEWTN News Nightly With Colleen Carroll Campbell\u201d is a 38-year-old\u00a0journalist and author<\/a>\u00a0who has written speeches for President George W. Bush and earlier this year anchored EWTN\u2019s live television coverage of the papal conclave from Rome.<\/p>\n

Campbell said she hopes to represent the perspective of women who often feel \u201ccommitted to their faith and don\u2019t see it as an impediment to being vocal in the public square.\u201d She added, \u201ctoo often there\u2019s a caricature of Catholic women as a bunch of sheep.\u201d<\/p>\n

To Campbell, the attraction of EWTN is its \u201cbroad catholic \u2014 with a big C and a small C \u2014 outlook on issues.\u201d She said an attempt will be made to show viewers how their Catholic faith can connect them to issues such as conflicts abroad, poverty and cultural battles that were not on their radar.<\/p>\n

Stewart<\/strong> M. Hoover, director of the University of Colorado\u2019s Center for Media, Religion and Culture, described EWTN as \u201ca general-interest Catholic service, though with a clearly conservative-traditionalist bent\u201d that would appeal to an older and conservative viewership.<\/p>\n

Hoover said he monitored EWTN\u2019s coverage of the papal transition earlier this year. \u201cThey didn\u2019t seem so much like a hard news service as a soft-feature framing of the events,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail. \u201cI\u2019d expect their news service from Washington to be similar: Catholic, traditional, tending to soft-pedal controversies in place of serious advocacy on issues like opposition to abortion, et cetera. I\u2019d expect the Bishops Conference to get a lot of attention, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWill it be the Fox News of Catholicism or religion? I\u2019d doubt they\u2019d be that strong or strident,\u201d he added. \u201cMore likely a gentle, dolorous, pious framing of events with strong coverage of Catholicism and its presence in U.S. public culture. Some of the impulse is to try to recreate the Fulton Sheen era,\u201d referring to the bishop and Catholic media star of the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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