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May 2013

May 16, 2013

Paedophilia and the left redux

Absent a priestly predator is paedophilia a religion news story? In comments posted in response...

May 15, 2013

Ready! Set! Be bored by Illinois’ same-sex marriage debate!

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's "Religion News on the Web" page is one...

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 14, 2013

NYTimes finally makes some changes on the fetus front

Oh to have been a fly on the fall during any editing discussions at The...

May 14, 2013

Who’s worthy of more coverage: Akin or Gosnell?

When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a comment about women being raped last year,...

May 13, 2013

Should pro-choice activists be asked Gosnell questions?

The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a Mother's Day interview with, who else, the...

May 12, 2013

Pod people: Proselytization, blasphemy and Gosnell

On this week's Crossroads podcast with host Todd Wilken, we talked media coverage of the...

May 10, 2013

Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most

If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is...

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,...

May 09, 2013

O ye gods! WPost blazes trail in AP heresy (updated)

A reading, according to the Stylebook of the Associated Press. Let us attend. gods and...

May 08, 2013

God’s role in Mark Sanford’s redemption story

God — and South Carolina voters — decided Tuesday to give disgraced former Gov. Mark...

May 08, 2013

Media continues to ‘Gosnell’ abortion coverage. Why?

This blog played a bit of a role in highlighting Gosnelling, the media practice of...

May 07, 2013

Buddhism and horse-race politics

Campaign journalism is a favorite of reporters and readers alike. I am not a fan,...

May 06, 2013

Pennsylvania reporter shows how to correct error

Last week, a sad news story out of Pennsylvania made the rounds. Originally, it had...

May 03, 2013

Media treatment of Mikey Weinstein under scrutiny

Earlier today I mentioned some questions I have about this crazy "court-martial" story that blew...

May 03, 2013

I share, you evangelize, they proselytize

Defense Dept. say proselytism is banned but evangelism is ok (and no one's getting court...

May 02, 2013

Brave religious protestors fight devil in Oak Ridge

My goal is to write a relatively short post about a very, very long Washington...

May 01, 2013

Why is Paula Broadwell’s faith such a mystery?

Seeking "redemption" after Petraeus scandal, Paula Broadwell looks to faith cbsn.ws/130ApsB— CBS News (@CBSNews) May...

May 01, 2013

So, does LA need a ‘conservative’ newspaper or not?

Time for a quick trip into tmatt's infamous GetReligion file of guilt. You just know...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Breaking the silence on abortion doctors like Gosnell

Sometimes other people do such fine GetReligion-esque media criticism that we just like to point...

April 29, 2013

Revelations, Books of Psalms and other scriptures

Last week we noticed some embarrassing corrections related to how newspapers described the Epistle to...

April 26, 2013

Today’s Epistle reading is from the New York Times

Last week, tmatt reflected on how the above reading at Margaret Thatcher's funeral was being...

April 26, 2013

That all-but-missing detail about Jeb Bush’s life

Catholics here in America have a very intense and interesting relationship with the mainstream press....

April 24, 2013

Journalism and the first few minutes after childbirth

There is nothing new about journalists arguing about the loaded language that surrounds our public...

April 24, 2013

Paedophilia and the radical left of ’68

Please excuse this brief reference to scripture: "Therefore I say to you, every sin and...

April 20, 2013

Power to hype or downplay: On Gosnell and the NYTimes

Many in the media are indicating that they really want to move on from the...

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 19, 2013

Gosnell fog blankets Britain

Last week my colleague at GetReligion Mollie Hemingway broke the American media blockade surrounding the...

April 18, 2013

Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher’s strength?

Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I...

April 18, 2013

Gay marriage cheerleading down under

The news that New Zealand's senate has approved a gay marriage bill has stirred but...