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September 2012

September 30, 2012

Tennessee trend piece hits the mark

It's a simple thing, really. One of the mantras of GetReligion is that journalists should...

September 30, 2012

Digging deeper than Tebow as ‘nice guy’

Another National Football League weekend, another chance to put Tim Tebow's name into digital print...

September 29, 2012

Crazy Charlie: His cartoons are insane

In this week’s podcast Issues Etc. host Todd Wilkin and I discussed two of my...

September 28, 2012

Missing canaries in the Damascus coal mine

I realize that, as a member of an Antiochian Orthodox Christian parish, my concerns about...

September 28, 2012

Meanwhile, back at AP’s sausage factory

On Thursday, I highlighted a fine piece of journalism produced by The Associated Press' filet...

September 28, 2012

Vatican either affirms or reverses priest’s suspension

In July, we looked at some of the media coverage of a priest who was...

September 27, 2012

Big tragedy, big money in Big Apple

Back in April, I weighed in on a claim that my former employer, The Associated...

September 27, 2012

We’re all blasphemers now

Never a dull moment on the religion news beat. And the latest clash is a...

September 26, 2012

Time to pin new label on Brian McLaren?

If people have long had trouble defining the word "evangelical" -- the Rev. Billy Graham...

September 26, 2012

God forbid, an 8 percent increase in dubious claims

During the political conventions a few weeks ago, we commented on some disparate coverage of...

September 26, 2012

How Many Gays in Hampstead?

Here is a craft question for you, GetReligion readers. No, I don't mean freemasonry but...

September 25, 2012

Faith and that grieving Ravens wide receiver

The Baltimore Ravens won a grudge match with the New England Patriots the other night...

September 25, 2012

Harry Reid is giving lessons on Mormonism

It is never news when a Huffington Post blogger says that Mitt Romney, or any...

September 24, 2012

Editing the soul out of Steubenville, Ohio

When a feature story dominates the Sunday front page of The Washington Post, you know...

September 24, 2012

Romney is still Mormon? Stop the presses

It's almost obligatory now for religion reporters to write their own version of "Romney is...

September 24, 2012

Missing ghost in this Crystal Cathedral story?

The Orange County Register has a story headlined "Former Crystal Cathedral pastor defaults on home."...

September 23, 2012

Americans underestimate Protestant population

A few months ago we looked at a survey that showed that the vast majority...

September 22, 2012

Anger at news media: A ‘pew gap’ out there?

Surely anyone who follows American politics, at least with serious intent, knows something about the...

September 21, 2012

Imagine this: Another unbalanced Post LGBT piece

Oh well, here we go again. I realize, at this point, that I am severely...

September 21, 2012

The Boy They Couldn’t Kill

Go read Sports Illustrated's "The Boy They Couldn't Kill." It is far and away the...

September 21, 2012

Remember Chick-fil-A? Still making news!

Even as we head into beautiful fall color changes, we're still talking about Chick-fil-A apparently....

September 20, 2012

Not all Tennesseans are Islamophobes!?

From The Associated Press comes shocking news: Apparently, not all Tennesseans are Islamophobes. You may...

September 20, 2012

LATimes on Chick-fil-A: Where’s the journalism?

A long, long, time ago -- almost a decade, in fact -- there was a...

September 19, 2012

Oh, for a follow-up question to Justice Thomas

Anyone who has ever tried to do media criticism knows that it is so, so...

September 19, 2012

Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoon crassness

Get ready GetReligion readers for the next twist in the Muslim outrage story. Today's issue...

September 19, 2012

Christmas comes early with ‘Jesus’ wife’ story

Readers of GetReligion are familiar with that mainstream media holiday tradition of releasing news stories...

September 18, 2012

Exorcism for fun and profit

The title of this story from the Agence France Presse (AFP), "Exorcism boom in Poland...

September 18, 2012

Ghosts in pews of a great old Brooklyn church

Like many other Baby Boomer believers who grew up in the era of ugly-as-sin church...

September 18, 2012

Sacrificing journalism on altar of gay advocacy

A few weeks ago, departing New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane said something everybody...

September 17, 2012

Changes in the Godbeat

The Godbeat (or religion beat) is in the middle of some major shifts again, ones...