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March 2013

March 18, 2013

Telling the ‘truth’ in Hamas-Israeli conflict

Here's another story that I wanted to cover last week before I got injured and...

March 17, 2013

Ghosts in Brennan’s Constitution oath?

Various media reported that new CIA chief John O. Brennan swore his oath of office...

March 11, 2013

Jesus, the Mahdi and Hugo Chavez

A note of condolence written by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, upon the death of Venezuelan strongman...

March 08, 2013

Antisemitism and when context matters for the NY Times

This week, the conservative Weekly Standard broke a story that was headlined: Michelle Obama and...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

Got news? Freeing Saeed Abedini

I'm frequently pondering what makes news and what doesn't. Take a gander at this Google...

February 13, 2013

Piling on Pat Robertson

Having apparently exhausted discussion of one octogenarian, The Huffington Post appears to have turned its...

February 13, 2013

Palinphobia hurts journalism

The Washington Post published something yesterday that it shouldn't have. Why? Because it was false,...

February 08, 2013

Covering opposition to syncretism in a syncretized world

There is nothing more fun about being a confessional Lutheran than explaining our position on...

February 06, 2013

Ghosts crowding in on drone stories

If I weren't so sick I would have already done this but in the days...

February 01, 2013

New York Times solves the problem of Sharia

This report on Thursday's Cairo conference from the New York Times breaks the streak of...

February 01, 2013

Telling the story of Timbuktu’s terror

The New York Times has done some amazing work this week covering Islamic conflicts in...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

When is it OK to burn Islamic texts?

We've been critiquing the good and bad coverage of what's been happening to Mali in...

January 24, 2013

Is Christian Zionism off the NY Times radar?

Comments given to an American church audience in 2011 by an Israeli rabbi, who stood...

January 20, 2013

Is ‘Palestinian’ a sufficient descriptor for Hamas?

On Friday, we looked at media coverage of a new translation of a video from...

January 18, 2013

Got News? President of Egypt calls Jews apes and pigs

The Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel reported on a video from 2010 that was...

January 14, 2013

A one-sided ‘cycle of violence’ in Pakistan

The New York Times has a story headlined "Pakistanis Protest the Killing of 86 Shiites."...

January 11, 2013

Syrian sniper offers thoughts on life, death and faith

Anyone who has been to the Middle East, or who has spent much time talking...

January 11, 2013

Muslims believe in adoption, or do they?

The Dallas Morning News ran a tame little feature recently on efforts to recruit Muslim...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Pod people: Don’t mention the war!

"Don’t mention the war!” is the catch phrase from “The Germans” episode of the British...

December 19, 2012

Christians are numerous. What’s their problem?

Yesterday, Pew came out with a new "Global Religious Landscape" report. Much of the media...

December 13, 2012

Scratch a German, find a Nazi, the New York Times reports

The end of term is just round the corner with Christmas less than two weeks...

December 12, 2012

Generic Armenians fleeing Syria for no particular reason

For news consumers who are closely following events on the ground in Syria, especially those...

December 12, 2012

Islamist crimes against humanity in Mali

The Washington Post has a tough, but very important, read on the deteriorating situation in...

December 06, 2012

Some journalists waking up to Egyptian realities?

Day after day the news from Egypt seems to get darker and more confusing. This...

December 05, 2012

Why is police victim’s religion such a secret?

A friend sent along a story to me about a religious row that ended in...

December 05, 2012

Self censorship at the New York Times

An International Herald Tribune report about Pakistan seems a bit confused as to what constitutes...

December 03, 2012

Whistling in the dark about Islam and reform

Has anyone seen a story in the U.S. press about the opening of...

December 02, 2012

Washington Post’s ghostly top 50 list

It's that time of year when media outlets put out their best of the year...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Hard-hitting questions for Egypt’s Morsi

The Associated Press brings us the latest from Cairo: Islamists approved a draft constitution for...

November 19, 2012

The murder of Shaima Alawadi and media credulousness

I mentioned the story of Shaima Al Awadhi the other day. (Previous coverage here, here...