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March 2013

March 19, 2013

Was Pope Francis ‘anointed’ today? (UPDATED)

The New York Times has run, at last count, 10 pieces in the past six...

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 17, 2013

Pod people: Did you hear? There is a new pope!

You will be shocked, shocked, need I say SHOCKED to know that this week's "Crossroads"...

March 15, 2013

Flooding the papal coverage zone

We've certainly seen some abysmally bad religion news coverage ever since Pope Benedict XVI announced...

March 14, 2013

Vatican secret ballots aren’t democratic?

Friends, I took a nasty fall a couple of days ago and have seriously injured...

March 13, 2013

Yes! Pope Francis is not from Europe! (updated)

All together now: Raise your hands if you wanted to throw something at the television...

March 12, 2013

Interviewing ‘everyone’ about the conclave

I love that biting Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows." It begins: Everybody knows that the...

March 11, 2013

Remember to substantiate charges

The International Business Times sure has a scoop. Headline: Conclave 2013: Pope Benedict XVI 'Did...

March 09, 2013

Pod people: Can journalism be a civilizing influence?

On this week's Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I talked about recent admissions from...

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...

March 07, 2013

Fake bishop or episcopi vagantes?

Media outlets had a lot of fun with a recent story about a Vatican gatecrasher....

March 06, 2013

Critical thinking would help reporters cover gay debates

Yesterday we looked at some of this week's worst examples of some major media's trouble...

March 05, 2013

Can the press cover traditionalists with justice and decency?

Thanks to the many readers who sent in kind words regarding my piece last week...

March 05, 2013

Free the cardinals!

Yesterday tmatt asked readers to submit links to papal coverage that was particularly good or...

March 04, 2013

NPR ‘looks’ at role for Catholic women

Yesterday, reader Ivan (aka @SlavicPolymath) tweeted: NPR Weekend Edition interviewing LCWR sister. Hoping beyond hope...

March 02, 2013

Self-described way-devoted super-Catholics and the press

I already used this YouTube as art in a post last week but it really...

March 01, 2013

Is Politico as partisan as The Weekly Standard?

Today is Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton's last day. You can read his memo to...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Why is the pope so old? (And other media questions)

A few days ago, the Washington Post tweeted out a link to a piece on...

February 27, 2013

Playing the same-sex marriage card

Over the weekend, the better half stirred up quite a hornet's nest for a post...

February 26, 2013

Catholic or catholic? Or, so that’s what catholic means!

A religion writer passed along this piece from the Wall Street Journal with the instruction...

February 25, 2013

Guess which WPost reporter refuses to cover you fairly

This weekend, we looked at the Washington Post ombudsman column that revealed that the newspaper...

February 24, 2013

Where’s the faith content in these sex scandals?

On one level, that New York Times feature story on the fall of Msgr. Kevn...

February 23, 2013

WPost: Yes, we fear and loathe religious traditionalists

On Feb. 15, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton made a startling statement: It is possible...

February 22, 2013

Unnecessary words and the Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

Yesterday a reader tweeted that The Guardian was clearly trying to insinuate that Pope Benedict...

February 21, 2013

Mainstream media defense of abortion never rests

I once served on a jury that convicted a man of conspiracy to commit mail...

February 20, 2013

Ultra Orthodox or fervently religious Jews?

The Jewish Daily Forward has a fascinating discussion of terms used to describe Haredi. It...

February 19, 2013

Media fallibility on papal infallibility

Last week in my post "Turkson wouldn’t be first African pope," I quoted from an...

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 17, 2013

Scripture verses: reporters’ Kryptonite?

The Media Research Center found this clip but I thought readers here might get a...