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July 2013

July 05, 2013

Watching for ghosts in the news flashes from Egypt

A few journalistic thoughts while I continue to watch the waves of news coverage rolling...

July 03, 2013

BBC silence on honor killings and Islam

The BBC reports three Pakistani women were murdered by a member of their family for...

July 01, 2013

There’s more to Egypt’s pain than secularism vs. religion

Many GetReligion readers have, I am sure, spent some time today following the urgent news...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Attention liberals: Blasphemy cases on the rise in Egypt

As I have said numerous times, I cannot imagine how hard it must be to...

June 15, 2013

Hurrah: CNN names some of the ghosts in Gezi Park

The coverage of events in Turkey roll on and on and the mainstream press continues...

June 12, 2013

Secular and religious symbols lost in many Turkey reports

I have been reading the mainstream coverage of the events unfolding in Turkey from the...

June 11, 2013

Bali, bikinis, Miss World and fear of Islam’s ‘extremist fringe’

I would like to ask a journalistic question and I want to stress that this...

June 04, 2013

Hey Washington Post: There’s only one (gay) Islam? Really?

Anyone who has been paying attention to debates about the future of the Boy Scouts...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Media coverage of religious profiling

So tmatt has us all doing this experiment of reading a daily paper. I haven't...

May 26, 2013

WPost wants to know: So who built the Second Temple?

Kudos to the Washington Post for moving quickly to correct an error in Wednesday's article...

May 25, 2013

Reporting on Islam and lone-wolf terror attacks

Details are continuing to emerge on Wednesday's murder of British soldier Lee Rigby near the...

May 21, 2013

How To Be A Lousy Journalist

Over at Intercollegiate Review, I have a piece with some helpful journalism tips. Here's how...

May 19, 2013

Downplaying the canonization of Christians martyred by Muslim invaders?

In a recent post about an error in a story about a new saint, readers...

May 15, 2013

Hey Reuters: Historic details really matter in Istanbul

Istanbul is the kind of place in which the past often seems to be just...

May 15, 2013

Well here’s a new spin on female ordination

Let's begin this post with this link to the Vatican's Code of Canon Law: Can. ...

May 14, 2013

An Army (trend) of one (or maybe two)

There’s an old journalism joke that goes, “Q: How do journalists count? A: One, two,...

May 09, 2013

Let’s revisit Benghazi and the 1st Amendment

If you didn't get a chance to watch the Benghazi whistleblowers testify before Congress yesterday,...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Yes, we know two Orthodox bishops are missing in Syria

Editor's note: This happens now and then, every two or three years. Two GetReligion writers...

April 24, 2013

Covering a Boston mosque’s radical ties

The latest headlines give some indication of where the Boston bombing story is going. From...

April 23, 2013

Concerning the sweet, formerly Christian, wife of the talented artist bomber

Here's an interesting and timely religion news story at the Huffington Post: "Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspected...

April 22, 2013

Untangling the Tsarnaevs’ Muslim ties, carefully

On Friday we asked readers to send in thoughts on good and bad coverage of...

April 19, 2013

In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions

As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it's safe to say that journalists...

April 19, 2013

Covering the religion angle on breaking Boston news

Yes, this has been a bad week for journalism. And many people are complaining. But...

April 16, 2013

Let us attend: Waiting for a religion shoe to drop in Boston

As you would expect, people were a bit tense last night on my commuter train...

April 09, 2013

Define ‘Islamist’ and please be specific

Last week, the people who produce the Associated Press Stylebook issued a few revisions. One...

April 08, 2013

God or mammon in Iran

The New York Times article "Power Struggle Is Gripping Iran Ahead of June Election" offers a...

April 02, 2013

God and Allah at an Easter service shooting

A church in Ashtabula, Ohio, was the scene of a shooting on Easter Sunday. Just...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Got news? Egyptian Copts tortured for some strange reason

Yes, I know that we're talking about a report on Fox News. That fact alone,...

March 27, 2013

Who believes what in Egypt’s debates about rape?

Let me be honest here and say what I truly want to say about the...

March 21, 2013

Hey CNN: Ghosts in the ties that bind Cyprus and Russia

So I'm sitting in a restaurant eating my lunch and, up on the wall, the...