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September 2012

September 30, 2012
It's a simple thing, really. One of the mantras of GetReligion is that journalists should...
September 30, 2012
Another National Football League weekend, another chance to put Tim Tebow's name into digital print...
September 29, 2012
In this week’s podcast Issues Etc. host Todd Wilkin and I discussed two of my...
September 28, 2012
I realize that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish, my concerns about...
September 28, 2012
On Thursday, I highlighted a fine piece of journalism produced by The Associated Press' filet...
September 28, 2012
In July, we looked at some of the media coverage of a priest who was...
September 27, 2012
Back in April, I weighed in on a claim that my former employer, The Associated...
September 27, 2012
Never a dull moment on the religion news beat. And the latest clash is a...
September 26, 2012
If people have long had trouble defining the word "evangelical" -- the Rev. Billy Graham...
September 26, 2012
During the political conventions a few weeks ago, we commented on some disparate coverage of...
September 26, 2012
Here is a craft question for you, GetReligion readers. No, I don't mean freemasonry but...
September 25, 2012
The Baltimore Ravens won a grudge match with the New England Patriots the other night...
September 25, 2012
It is never news when a Huffington Post blogger says that Mitt Romney, or any...
September 24, 2012
When a feature story dominates the Sunday front page of The Washington Post, you know...
September 24, 2012
It's almost obligatory now for religion reporters to write their own version of "Romney is...
September 24, 2012
The Orange County Register has a story headlined "Former Crystal Cathedral pastor defaults on home."...
September 23, 2012
A few months ago we looked at a survey that showed that the vast majority...
September 22, 2012
Surely anyone who follows American politics, at least with serious intent, knows something about the...
September 21, 2012
Oh well, here we go again. I realize, at this point, that I am severely...
September 21, 2012
Go read Sports Illustrated's "The Boy They Couldn't Kill." It is far and away the...
September 21, 2012
Even as we head into beautiful fall color changes, we're still talking about Chick-fil-A apparently....
September 20, 2012
From The Associated Press comes shocking news: Apparently, not all Tennesseans are Islamophobes. You may...
September 20, 2012
A long, long, time ago -- almost a decade, in fact -- there was a...
September 19, 2012
Anyone who has ever tried to do media criticism knows that it is so, so...
September 19, 2012
Get ready GetReligion readers for the next twist in the Muslim outrage story. Today's issue...
September 19, 2012
Readers of GetReligion are familiar with that mainstream media holiday tradition of releasing news stories...
September 18, 2012
The title of this story from the Agence France Presse (AFP), "Exorcism boom in Poland...
September 18, 2012
Like many other Baby Boomer believers who grew up in the era of ugly-as-sin church...
September 18, 2012
A few weeks ago, departing New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane said something everybody...
September 17, 2012
The Godbeat (or religion beat) is in the middle of some major shifts again, ones...
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