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2014-08-29T13:32:12-04:00

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About that prophetic USA Today story grilling Mark Jackson

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By tmatt

It’s time for a quick trip into my very large folder of GetReligion guilt, that place where I put stories that I think deserve attention — once I get done with the news of the day. And then a day turns into a week and then a week into two weeks and so forth and so on. So let’s flash back to the recent NBA series between the Los Angeles Clippers and coach Doc Rivers and the Golden State Warriors... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:13-04:00

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About those Nigerian Christian girls, chanting in Arabic

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By tmatt

As I have said many times, I have no idea how foreign correspondents do the work that they do, especially when working in regions that are being torn apart by civil war and complex events linked to terrorism. While readers tend to see events in terms of good guys and terrorists, the reporters on the ground know that reality is much more complex than that. The events unfolding in the overwhelmingly Muslim northeast corner of Nigeria are a perfect example... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:13-04:00

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Reuters: On apostasy and the death penalty in Islam

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By geoconger

A 27-year-old woman, Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, has been sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy by a Khartoum court. That fact, plus her marital and family status (pregnant mother with a 20-month-old child and a Christian husband) are about the only things about which the newspaper accounts agree. Reuters’s account conflicts with those offered by some Christian NGOs and differ from the BBC and NBC, whose reports on the case appear to be based upon a press release provided... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:32:14-04:00

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Horny dads at a prom: Too juicy to get the whole story

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By Jim Davis

Let’s talk about Clare, the homeschooled teenager in Richmond, Va., who was thrown out of a prom because of her dress. The facts are … Well, actually, we don’t know many of the facts, whatever you may have read in “news” accounts. Nearly all of them are based purely on her blogging rant about the flap. In one of the most shameful abuses of social media ever, story after story takes as gospel truth how the girl conformed to the... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:14-04:00

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How much religion news can fit in 300-500 words?

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Given your short attention span, I’ll make this brief. And I’ll get right to the point: For once, The Associated Press is making news instead of reporting it. Here’s the story as reported by The Washington Post: Citing a “sea of bloated mid-level copy,” Associated Press Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano last week instructed fellow editors at the wire service to limit most “daily, bylined digest stories” to a length of between 300 and 500 words. Top stories from each state, Carovillano... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:15-04:00

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There he goes, there (Bill Keller) goes again …

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By tmatt

In light of the latest newsroom drama at The New York Times, let’s pause and reflect once again on why it matters so much who leads America’s most influential news institution. I know that it only seems like yesterday that editor Jill Abramson was the new boss and we were trying to gauge how that would change the whole theology of journalism at the Times, so soon after the fascinatingly candid (you knew this was coming) remarks on religion, culture... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:15-04:00

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WSJ profiles Nigerian terrorist with no mention of ‘Christians’

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

Is there a religion angle on the heartbreaking story of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls? Of course there is, as GetReligion has made clear in previous posts, including tmatt’s insightful analysis titled “So #bringbackourgirls is finally a news story! Why now?” From that post: The bottom line: The girls were taken from Chibok Government Girls Secondary School and the vast majority were Christians and the others were Muslims who were willing to attend a non-Islamic school with Christians, a violation of Boko Haram’s... Read more

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2014-08-29T13:32:16-04:00

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Missing elements in NYTimes marital rape report from India

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By geoconger

Marriage was a hot topic this week in the Indian press following rulings by two Delhi Courts. The High Court held that apostasy was automatic grounds for granting a divorce under the country’s Muslim Marriage Act, while the Court of Additional Sessions in Delhi ruled that there was no such thing as “marital rape” under Indian civil law and the Hindu Marriage Act. Religion — in this case the intersection of Hinduism and Islam — played a prominent role in... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:17-04:00

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Shock: Russian Orthodoxy gives drag queen thumbs down

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By tmatt

Dear GetReligion readers: Some of you wrote to say that you wanted to know what I thought of the whole Conchita Wurst episode, referring to the drag queen — the term used in mainstream media reports — who won the recent Eurovision Song Contest. In particular, a few of you want to know what I thought of the coverage of the fact that Russian Orthodox Church leaders have condemned this minor earthquake in popular culture. People, people, are you surprised... Read more

2014-08-29T13:32:17-04:00

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Nuanced portrait of a rising Catholic star: Cardinal Wuerl

Last updated on: August 29, 2014 at 1:32 pm By Jim Davis

Well, darn. Someone in the media remembers that there are other Catholic leaders besides Pope Francis. For a recent profile in the Washington Post, it’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl. The head of the influential Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., received a long-form, 1,500-word look in his hometown newspaper, The Washington Post. That in itself is a welcome change from wire style: The Associated Press has announced that most of its stories will henceforth run 300-500 words. Blending a seasoned eye with a... Read more

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