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2013-04-23T08:52:38-04:00

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Behold: A pretty fair tribute to George Beverly Shea

Last updated on: April 23, 2013 at 8:52 am By tmatt

Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that I grew up in Texas in the 1960s and early ’70s, the son of a Southern Baptist pastor. Suffice it to say that I have been to my share of Billy Graham meetings, back then and as a reporter on the religion beat in Denver and elsewhere. So I heard George Beverly Shea sing on multiple occasions. The purpose of this post is quite simple, but I will admit that it is a bit... Read more

2013-04-22T12:30:36-04:00

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Womenpriests again: The people vs. paper scenario

Last updated on: April 22, 2013 at 12:30 pm By tmatt

Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill. You are writing a story about a controversial topic, a topic that people in the establishment of a religious body are not anxious to talk about. The rebels, on the left or the right, are anxious to tell their story.They will talk your ear off, as long as you don’t ask them any challenging questions. Meanwhile, the establishment leaders — on the left or the right — just... Read more

2013-04-22T09:56:50-04:00

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Untangling the Tsarnaevs’ Muslim ties, carefully

Last updated on: April 22, 2013 at 9:56 am By mollie

On Friday we asked readers to send in thoughts on good and bad coverage of religion angles for the Tsarnaev brothers. And we’ve seen quite a bit of good coverage — too much to go into but I hope you’re seeing it in your local and national outlets. We’ve also heard from religion reporters and others who pointed out problems. One early problem was the attempt to define the brothers as either “devout” or “not devout.” For an example of... Read more

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2013-04-21T13:37:09-04:00

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Pod people: Talking personal history on the religion beat

Last updated on: April 21, 2013 at 1:37 pm By tmatt

Granted, 25 years is a rather long time, especially in the Internet age. Nevertheless, I was taken a bit off guard this week when Issues, Etc. host Todd Wilkin asked me for whatever “historical perspective” I had gained on religion and the news during my 25 years writing the weekly “On Religion” column for the Scripps Howard Newspaper. We had planned to do a “Crossroads” podcast about the column’s anniversary a bit earlier, but then the Divine Ms. M.Z. Hemingway... Read more

2013-04-20T19:37:06-04:00

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Power to hype or downplay: On Gosnell and the NYTimes

Last updated on: April 20, 2013 at 7:37 pm By mollie

Many in the media are indicating that they really want to move on from the Gosnell trial that they’ve struggled to cover — or ignored — from the get-go. You’re not seeing much coverage. Earlier this week I came across a small example that demonstrates how media frenzies are fed or squashed. It’s instructive. Let’s go back to the Winter of 2012. You’ll remember that when a private foundation devoted to fighting breast cancer decided to stop subsidizing the country’s... Read more

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2013-04-19T13:54:46-04:00

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In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions

Last updated on: April 19, 2013 at 1:54 pm By tmatt

As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it’s safe to say that journalists now face crucial decisions about the role of religion — specifically radical forms of Islam — played in the motives behind this act of terrorist. There is no way to read everything that is being written, at the moment, but we’re trying to stay informed (even while, in my case, teaching classes). However, over on the journalistic left, Mother Jones has published this sobering information:... Read more

2013-04-19T10:17:51-04:00

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Covering the religion angle on breaking Boston news

Last updated on: April 19, 2013 at 10:17 am By mollie

Yes, this has been a bad week for journalism. And many people are complaining. But it’s also been a great week for journalism. I was one of those folks listening in on the Boston police scanner last night and it was so very difficult to make sense of what was going on (though it was absolutely riveting, thrilling and horrifying). Suddenly, in the midst of all the chaos, the New York Times published an account of the shootout between suspects... Read more

2013-04-19T01:53:29-04:00

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Gosnell fog blankets Britain

Last updated on: April 19, 2013 at 1:53 am By geoconger

Last week my colleague at GetReligion Mollie Hemingway broke the American media blockade surrounding the Kermit Gosnell trial. Mollie, and Kirsten Powers writing in USA Today, reported on the absence of national press coverage of the trial of the Philadelphia abortionist — questioning why reporters who never tired of Sandra Flake or Komen Foundation stories shied away from this national news item. Some members of the press and newspapers have sought to repair their damaged credibility and are now playing... Read more

2013-04-18T15:50:58-04:00

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Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher’s strength?

Last updated on: April 18, 2013 at 3:50 pm By tmatt

Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I tell them that they face three major journalistic challenges. They have to: (1) Get the words down, whether in professional quality notes, on a recording or, ideally, both. (2) Understand the words, by which I mean that a reporter has to figure out what people are actually saying. This is not always easy because experts in various fields — from national politics to football, from... Read more

2013-04-18T16:01:04-04:00

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Gay marriage cheerleading down under

Last updated on: April 18, 2013 at 4:01 pm By geoconger

The news that New Zealand’s senate has approved a gay marriage bill has stirred but slight interest in the U.S. press. The Wall Street Journal ran a small box item while the New York Times printed a brief AP report in its world briefing section on page A12. The AP reports that: Parliament on Wednesday voted 77 to 44 to legalize same-sex marriage, which will make New Zealand the 13th nation in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific... Read more

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