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August 2012

August 27, 2012
Whenever you read one of those reflective essays on how The New York Times serves...
August 27, 2012
The New York Times' outgoing public editor -- Arthur S. Brisbane -- wrote his final...
August 26, 2012
Stop whatever you are doing. If you read one story this week, make it this...
August 26, 2012
Here we go again. It's almost time for the annual God-and-gridiron tsunami. Athletes and coaches...
August 25, 2012
On the latest Issues, Etc. podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent post on...
August 24, 2012
If anyone is interested, here is an short update on GetReligion's recent move to Patheos....
August 24, 2012
The most important story this week -- do the math -- has been the reaction...
August 24, 2012
Above all – Allah is our goal... The shari'a, then the shari'a, and finally, the...
August 23, 2012
Earlier today, I highlighted a couple of examples of how the media suffer from some...
August 23, 2012
A few days ago a religion reporter tweeted at us: Will @getreligion cover Todd Akin's...
August 23, 2012
On this week's episode of Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom," we'll take you inside the world...
August 22, 2012
With GetReligion's move to the Patheos universe, it's highly likely that this here weblog has...
August 22, 2012
Mitt Romney's surprising decision to allow reporters to follow him into church Sunday drew a...
August 22, 2012
“Truth is true only within a certain period of time,” observed a spokesman for the...
August 21, 2012
What we have here, in this short New York Times wedding announcement, is a dangerously...
August 21, 2012
When a story uses extra adjectives or adverbs to pretty up a story, you know...
August 21, 2012
I believe it was President Obama who once said something about the press corps in...
August 20, 2012
Over the weekend, I complained about the holy ghosts in a New York Times story...
August 20, 2012
As you would imagine, I have received a few notes seeking my take, as a...
August 20, 2012
It is a common critique that residents of one country are disinterested in the goings...
August 19, 2012
As all loyal GetReligion readers know, sometimes we see things make it into news print...
August 19, 2012
In this week’s podcast Issues Etc. host Todd Wilkin and I discussed three recent GetReligion...
August 18, 2012
Take a moment and peruse this fascinating New York Times report about disputed oil drilling on a...
August 17, 2012
You know that you have moved into true Bible Belt territory when the locals start...
August 17, 2012
When a Neo-Nazi gunman killed and wounded worshipers at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek,...
August 17, 2012
In his 2008 Atlantic review of  Gregor von Rezzori's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite Christopher Hitchens...
August 16, 2012
Two deaths this week give the media a chance to cover significant changes in women’s...
August 16, 2012
One of the most powerful ways we receive and process information is visually. And we...
August 15, 2012
It didn't take long, after the Rt. Rev. Douglas Leblanc and I started GetReligion.org back...
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