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June 2013

June 14, 2013

Hey! It’s journalists mangling scripture day! (UPDATED)

David Brooks wrote a very Brooksian column for today's New York Times about how our...

June 12, 2013

Religion journalists save the day for young scribes

Last night I had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion for The Fund for...

June 11, 2013

Should the press blame Catholic teachers for its ignorance?

One common complaint we hear from readers is that reporters, when caught messing up some...

June 10, 2013

Spotting the sacred ghost in the era of iWeddings

Let me begin with a few confessions. First of all, let me stress that I...

June 07, 2013

At WPost, even local abortion crime isn’t newsworthy

On May 25, I tweeted out the image at the top of this post with...

June 06, 2013

Boomers are killing themselves. Why?

Tuesday's front page of the Washington Post had a collection of interesting stories above the...

June 04, 2013

We’ve found the next enemy: adoptive families

When my husband and I began the adoption process, we had no idea how controversial...

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 29, 2013

Media’s curiously wrong-headed posession obsession

Last week I made fun of that Associated Press story that claimed Pope Francis was...

May 28, 2013

Haunted story or not? On vampires, Satanism and murder

Day after day, the stunning story of young Morgan Lane Arnold has unfolded in the...

May 26, 2013

Why was Vatican mentioned in Womenpriest story?

The editor will be announced in an LA Daily News board meeting. The printing press,...

May 24, 2013

Yo, Politico: IRS commits — not violates — sins

Isn't it interesting how unfamiliar some folks are with religious language? A reporter passed on...

May 23, 2013

Pope Francis’ ‘obsession’ with the devil

It's kind of charming that all popes have to deal with bad media coverage and...

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 20, 2013

Protip: Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth

Did you hear about the anteater that conceived a baby even though she had no...

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 17, 2013

Pod people: Define ‘fetus’ and give three examples

The first question I faced, in this week's "Crossroads" interview, sounded relatively simple: Why did...

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

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 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 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

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

Just what was this American doing in North Korea?

Let's begin this post by first looking at a Christianity Today blog post from earlier...

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...

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 25, 2013

Kidnapped Syrian bishops still missing, despite reports

Horrible news out of Syria, where two Orthodox bishops were kidnapped. There hasn't been enough...