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April 2013

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 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 18, 2013

Media’s Gosnell reputation isn’t going to fix itself

Days after my quest for answers about why the media downplayed abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's...

April 17, 2013

Mysterious deluge of unreported Catholics

I'm on a few of those neighborhood list-servs. One of them is for area parents....

April 16, 2013

Vote! Which is the worst Gosnell lede?

A few positive thoughts before we look at coverage of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial....

April 15, 2013

WPost demonstrates how not to respond to Gosnell critiques, again

It's like drinking water from a fire hose. That's what processing all of the information...

April 14, 2013

Pod People: Media wake up to Gosnell failures

GetReligion's critique of media coverage of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial has received quite a...

April 12, 2013

Politico and Atlantic.com’s turn to explain Gosnell blackout

Earlier I shared what happened when I asked an AP reporter and a Washington Post...

April 12, 2013

WPost reporter explains her personal Gosnell blackout

I've been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many...

April 11, 2013

We need answers on Gosnell coverage

We've had a couple posts on the curious downplaying by the national media of the...

April 11, 2013

Some familiar religion-news questions, after 25 years

What are the odds? Several years ago, I realized that I was not really sure...

April 10, 2013

Mainstream press on Gosnell: adjust the framing

Yes, there's more. Abortionist Kermit Gosnell is on trial in Philadelphia for killing a female...

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

Should media cover — or cover up — abortion trial?

I would love to critique the coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion...

April 05, 2013

Indiana Jones and the reporter from hell

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Did you catch any of the stories about...

April 04, 2013

CBS: John the Baptist was at the Crucifixion

In our discussions on the New York Times' whopper of an error (and weird correction),...

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 31, 2013

Render unto Google the things which are Google’s …

First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do...

March 29, 2013

Whoa! Questions about marriage and religious liberty!

Yesterday some of us got a bit academic (and some of us practiced calling people...

March 28, 2013

Who knew Piers Morgan could be thought-provoking?

The Huffington Post's Jon Ward is a thoughtful reporter and one who uncovers ghosts on...

March 27, 2013

Marriage vs. marriage (or, What is marriage?)

Yesterday morning there was quite a bit of activity in and near the Supreme Court...

March 26, 2013

Polyamory, pessimism and other same-sex marriage ink

After years of pointing out how unbelievably unprofessional the journalism of same-sex marriage coverage was,...

March 25, 2013

Journalism and stem cell research 101

If you think general religion coverage is bad, try mixing it with media coverage of...

March 24, 2013

On the media’s habit of showing habited nuns

Quick follow-up to a recent post highlighting some problems with 60 Minutes' coverage of Roman...

March 22, 2013

Ghosts in news about those monks and their simple caskets

So, in one level, my primary task in this post is to point GetReligion readers...

March 22, 2013

At last! Actual journalism on the same-sex marriage beat

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. I was...

March 20, 2013

The new ‘abortion’: cutting newborns’ spinal cords

Two years ago, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was arrested for the murders of eight people at...