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November 2012

November 16, 2012

On media malpractice and Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death

Back in March I wrote in "How To Cover A Hate Crime" about my obsession...

November 15, 2012

Got news? Obama as Antichrist prequel draws silence

Man oh man do I feel conflicted writing this post. Let me state, right up...

November 14, 2012

Shock: Bishops decide to defend Catholic tradition!

OK, let's deal with some basic questions about Catholic bishops and politics. In terms of...

November 14, 2012

Peter Beinart and the powerful, but voiceless, Jews of Atlanta

The New York Times published an interesting story about the Atlanta Jewish Book Festival ("Jewish...

November 13, 2012

Red-state American in her natural habitat

I gotta admit: Just a few sentences into this Washington Post feature on post-election Red America...

November 13, 2012

Sun’s celebration of brave, pro-gay marriage pastors

One of the big election-day stories in deep-blue, liberal Maryland was the narrow victory for...

November 13, 2012

Are Salafis the most orthodox among Muslims?

The New York Times published a riveting piece about Salafism in Tunisia. From the beginning,...

November 12, 2012

Is “marriage equality” our term, their’s and everyone else’s?

Back in May, I noticed a curious decision by some media outlets to scare quote...

November 11, 2012

The decline and fall of King David Petraeus

Even by Friday night news dumps, this one was a doozie. David Petraeus resigned on...

November 09, 2012

Reporting on gay marriage in Spain

Laying out the front page of the November 7 issue presented a few problems for...

November 09, 2012

Innocence of Muslims filmmaker finally sentenced

Of the many curious coverage decisions the mainstream media made this year, I thought the...

November 08, 2012

What is this “American Catholic Church,” anyway?

What we have here is kind of a Son of the WomenPriests story -- with...

November 08, 2012

The ghost of Prince William County

It's all about race. And age. Religion? Uh, surely that's not a factor worth exploring....

November 08, 2012

Which religious group should be blamed for the election results?

Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and...

November 07, 2012

The day after: The prophet John Green, revisited

It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday's...

November 06, 2012

CNN attempts to bifurcate Jesus

I was reflecting on the interesting election coverage we experienced over the last year(s) and...

November 05, 2012

Top 10 ways BuzzFeed doesn’t get Christianity

Two minor media incidents yesterday made me wonder if some of the problems we see...

November 03, 2012

About GetReligion: In a few words or less

For years, journalists took one of two different approaches when labeling the two sides in...

November 02, 2012

Catholic bishops’ not-so-partisan partisan crusade

The Washington Post ran a piece from Religion News Service with the headline: Catholic bishops...

November 01, 2012

Missing some fundamental facts on Obama and faith

A week or so ago, I wrote a Scripps Howard News Service column about the...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Evangelicals warming to Mormon Romney?

A recent front-page Los Angeles Times story makes the case that reluctant evangelical Christian voters...

October 29, 2012

Hurricanes and political storms, near my desk in D.C.

A long time ago (in digital terms), back at the beginning of this here weblog,...

October 29, 2012

Something fishy in that AP racism story

The Associated Press had a huge story this weekend accusing American voters of racism, but...

October 28, 2012

Pod people: Theodicy, pinnochios and the war on women

Last week was not one of the best for the mainstream media. I just wrote...

October 26, 2012

European values after Auschwitz

Seventy years after the Holocaust, Germany has constructed the first monument honoring the half million...

October 25, 2012

Democrats, Jesus and deer hunting in the GOP Sunbelt

For starters, as a culturally conservative Democrat who loved his years in Tennessee (and plans...

October 25, 2012

Media embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy

The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists...

October 24, 2012

What has God got to do with drones?

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,"a United States major said today....

October 24, 2012

Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards

There are so many stories related to the media's poor coverage of abortion that I...

October 23, 2012

Jeers, not cheers, for latest cheerleader story

Ready? OK! In the midst of the Religion Newswriters Association annual meeting earlier this month,...