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January 2014

January 31, 2014
OK, gentle readers, once again I need to stress that the following post on a...
January 31, 2014
It's difficult, if not impossible, to separate the subject of a story from its journalistic...
January 31, 2014
For reasons probably more associated with my age than anything else, the old Dr. Hook...
January 30, 2014
Every now and then, I receive private emails, or emails sent through our contact link,...
January 30, 2014
Every year about this time, we face a blitz of profile stories of coaches, athletes,...
January 30, 2014
Former GetReligionista Brad Greenberg passed along this interesting item from Twitter, which barely requires commentary...
January 29, 2014
All Ukraine, All the time is not our moto at GetReligion. Though you may be...
January 29, 2014
The daily march of the headlines from Kiev continues. The other day, I offered up...
January 29, 2014
Define terms. Identify sources. The best journalism recognizes the importance of doing both — particularly...
January 28, 2014
So let's talk about the theft of that relic containing the blood of the Blessed...
January 28, 2014
Wire service reporting takes a special skill that not all writers posses. In less than...
January 27, 2014
One of the most difficult concepts in journalism to communicate to people outside the field...
January 27, 2014
THIS WEEK, the question doesn’t come from a “Religion Q and A” reader but a...
January 27, 2014
A spate of wire service photos from the demonstrations in Kiev may have awakened the...
January 26, 2014
Simply stated, it is one of the most haunting Associated Press photographs that I have...
January 24, 2014
Back in my graduate-school days, I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, after spending...
January 24, 2014
Courtesy of The Washington Post, let's all prepare to hyperventilate. This news will shock you...
January 24, 2014
Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and...
January 23, 2014
Think of this as a one-time GetReligion commentary from a guest who is an expert,...
January 23, 2014
First of all, to those who have written or tweeted on this: Yes, your GetReligionistas...
January 22, 2014
An old Salvation Army musical production -- the kind of church entertainment often aimed at...
January 22, 2014
As I type this with my cold fingers (starting at about 12:30 p.m.), the sun...
January 21, 2014
A French court has ordered a Reims hospital to provide nutrition and hydration to 38-year...
January 21, 2014
It happens at least once a year. A GetReligionista will write a post about media...
January 21, 2014
In an Associated Press story about his new, $215 million contract, Los Angeles Dodgers ace...
January 20, 2014
Anyone who has read GetReligion for, oh, more than a week knows that we are...
January 20, 2014
GRETCHEN ASKS: (Paraphrasing) She attended a fund-raising event for an unnamed organization where a slide...
January 20, 2014
News travels fast. Sometimes. In 1999, The Associated Press reported on Bible Belt states battling...
January 19, 2014
So let's try this again. The other day I wrote about a news report that...
January 18, 2014
Where is Jahi McMath, and what is the latest installment of her story? I'm glad...
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