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February 2013

February 16, 2013

Westernized Zen and the art of hiding sexual abuse

So many details will sound terribly familiar. At the heart of the news story is...

February 15, 2013

Water-sipping and pro-life activism. A tale of media coverage.

Last month, we covered the perennial problem of why the March for Life gets the...

February 14, 2013

Turkson wouldn’t be first African pope

Yesterday morning a Lutheran friend sent me an email joking that he was "off Team...

February 13, 2013

Palinphobia hurts journalism

The Washington Post published something yesterday that it shouldn't have. Why? Because it was false,...

February 10, 2013

Cardinal Dolan dares to tweak the NYTimes

If you've paid attention to religion news at all in recent days, you probably know...

February 08, 2013

Covering opposition to syncretism in a syncretized world

There is nothing more fun about being a confessional Lutheran than explaining our position on...

February 07, 2013

GetReligion turns nine: Thoughts on comments and trolls

So, friends and neighbors, if we are going to do some intense navel-gazing here at...

February 07, 2013

SPLC to get Sarah Palin treatment any day now

I want to talk about media coverage of the man who was convicted today of...

February 05, 2013

Lining up the facts on eruvim

The New York Times has a story about three lawsuits that have been filed over...

February 04, 2013

Running the White House spin on HHS regulations

If news is ever going to break on your beat, it will break on Friday...

February 03, 2013

Pod people: Making progress on abortion coverage

In this week's Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discussed the good and bad...

February 02, 2013

GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes

So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked...

February 01, 2013

Telling the story of Timbuktu’s terror

The New York Times has done some amazing work this week covering Islamic conflicts in...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

We don’t have a free press. Discuss.

With the headline "Stupid Press, Stupid People: Non-Reporting the March for Life," you know Anthony...

January 30, 2013

How PR attempt against Life Marchers played out at MSNBC

Earlier this week, I looked at how a PR push from a progressive group called...

January 29, 2013

When is it OK to burn Islamic texts?

We've been critiquing the good and bad coverage of what's been happening to Mali in...

January 28, 2013

Super Bowl week: Sun misses the Spirit in AP Stylebook

News flash: This may be a shock to GetReligion readers, who are quite cool as...

January 28, 2013

Savvy PR firm scores NYTimes coup against March For Life

We've received quite a few complaints about the religion angle the New York Times chose...

January 28, 2013

Foot-long subs vs. March For Life

The Associated Press has a Twitter feed with nearly 1.6 million followers. Those followers received...

January 26, 2013

Kwanzaa, Manti Te’o and respect

I enjoy reading other media critics and ombudsmen, (er, ombudspersons?) and thought about discussing this...

January 24, 2013

Media coverage of Roe at 40

One could write several volumes under this headline, but we'll just look at a few...

January 23, 2013

The ghost of abortion in adoption stories

Like many Americans, I've been developing an interest in Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San...

January 22, 2013

At Obama inauguration, not all religion is biblical

Yesterday was a big day for the country, with the second inauguration of President Barack...

January 21, 2013

Stan Musial wore his faith on his sleeve

As news of St. Louis Cardinal great Stan Musial's death spread, Rocco Palmo tweeted: As...

January 20, 2013

Is ‘Palestinian’ a sufficient descriptor for Hamas?

On Friday, we looked at media coverage of a new translation of a video from...

January 18, 2013

Got News? President of Egypt calls Jews apes and pigs

The Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel reported on a video from 2010 that was...

January 16, 2013

Scientology comes to The Atlantic

The internet freaked out this week when an advertisement done in the "Sponsored Content" style...

January 15, 2013

I’ve been named a PBS reporter!

This story came to my attention via the great, seemingly omnipresent Rocco Palmo, who tweeted...

January 14, 2013

A one-sided ‘cycle of violence’ in Pakistan

The New York Times has a story headlined "Pakistanis Protest the Killing of 86 Shiites."...

January 12, 2013

Pod people: You will know us by the trail of scare quotes

This week's "Crossroads" podcast with host Todd Wilken was recorded much earlier in the week....