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2014-08-29T13:31:41-04:00

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NYTimes: Waves of generic refugees run for their lives in Iraq

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By tmatt

The news from Iraq grows more and more distressing, at least for those who favor old-liberalism virtues found in documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the United Nations. Here is a typical mainstream-news update, care of The Los Angeles Times. But let’s back up for a moment and look at two key elements of one of the first major stories that shook the mainstream press into action. I refer to The New York Times piece that... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:31:42-04:00

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Ghosts after Seattle Pacific shooting? Not in this story

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Here at GetReligion, we blog often about holy ghosts in news coverage. However, we much prefer stories that leave no room for spiritual ghostbusting. Such is the case with an exceptional Seattle Times report on the “grief without despair” that followed last week’s shooting at Seattle Pacific University. Given the university’s evangelical Christian ties, religion has been a part of this tragic story from the beginning, as tmatt noted earlier. In a piece published Sunday, the Times explores the faith angle in a... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:31:42-04:00

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TASS on Russia’s talking dogs

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By geoconger

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said. Alan Furst, Dark Star (2002) I am sympathetic to the sentiments expressed by Pravda journalist André Szara, the central character in Alan Furst’s political-historical novel Dark Star. (I consider it the best of his 13 novels to date.) Once upon a time I too spent a great deal of my time listening to politicians, reporting... Read more

2014-08-29T13:31:43-04:00

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NYTimes notices old doctrine wars over InterVarsity chapters

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By tmatt

The debate started out behind closed doors but quickly jumped into the mainstream press. The news hook was that a lesbian student at Tufts University claimed that, under the campus nondiscrimination policy, she had been unfairly denied access to a leadership role in the Tufts Christian Fellowship, which was affiliated with InterVarsity. The campus chapter was banished, at first, but then allowed to re-draft its charter to stress that it was a doctrinally defined religious association, one requiring its leaders... Read more

2014-08-29T13:31:44-04:00

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In Irish children’s deaths, clarity doesn’t thrive in a septic tank

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By Jim Davis

The accounts of cruelty, neglect and other abuse of children under Catholic Church care in Ireland cannot and must not be ignored. But in their tales about babies buried in septic tanks and such, news media need to be scrupulous with facts and clarity. A case in point: two articles on St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, both from The New York Times. In his June 4 article, writer Douglas Dalby mentioned “allegations that a Roman... Read more

2014-08-29T13:31:44-04:00

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The ongoing spectacle of NYTimes contempt for religion

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By tmatt

Yes, this was a piece of commentary. In other words, it was not a news story that automatically fell into GetReligion territory. Yes, this mini-essay was about a new reality-television show way off in the outer reaches of cable land. But, well, it was also a piece that was published with a staff byline in the pages of The New York Times under one of those double-decker headlines that simply demands attention, right this very moment: Seek and Ye Shall... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:31:45-04:00

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What? You thought Francis, Peres and Abbas really prayed?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By tmatt

Let’s state this in journalistic terms. What? You thought that the mainstream journalists covering the remarkable Vatican rite offering prayers for Middle East peace rite would actually produce coverage that included any content from the prayers? Friends and neighbors, this event was all about politics and statecraft. Clearly, if the men wanted to produce real change in the real world then the only words that they spoke that mattered were addressed to one another and, thus, to the press. Get... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:31:46-04:00

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Ann B. Davis: True heroine of alternative families?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By tmatt

My recent GetReligion piece on the life and ministry of actress Ann B. Davis, a friend from Denver days, rang up some pretty good social media numbers (thank you readers and Twitter fanatics). As a result, I heard from quite a few folks reacting to the mainstream media coverage of her death. I think this is a commentary on her fame via The Brady Bunch. No doubt about that. However, I also think that — because of decades of activity... Read more

2014-08-29T13:31:46-04:00

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Which religions favor separation of church and state?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By Richard Ostling

Which religions favor separation of church and state? LISA ASKS: Do all religions teach separation between church and state? If not, which ones and why? THE RELIGION GUY ANSWERS: Separation of church and state (the usual phrasing though “of religion and state” is often more accurate) is an achievement of modern politics and by no means a universal one. Among world religions, after long struggle Christianity helped create the concept and broadly favors aspects of it in most countries. Islam... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:31:47-04:00

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Writing on houses of worship? Ignore the religious

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:31 pm By Jim Davis

Pop quiz: When you write about baseball or surgery, whom should you quote? That’s right. And when you write about playing a piano or cello, whom should you quote? Right again. And when you write about religion, whom should you quote? Nope, missed that one. When writing about any field, you must include its practitioners — unless it’s a religious group. NBC News and the New York Times followed that rule faithfully — in this case, faithlessly — in stories... Read more

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