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May 2013

May 26, 2013

WPost wants to know: So who built the Second Temple?

Kudos to the Washington Post for moving quickly to correct an error in Wednesday's article...

May 18, 2013

IRS scandal and ‘easy’ religion ghosts

On a recent Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken remarked with interest on how many...

May 14, 2013

NYTimes finally makes some changes on the fetus front

Oh to have been a fly on the fall during any editing discussions at The...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Breaking the silence on abortion doctors like Gosnell

Sometimes other people do such fine GetReligion-esque media criticism that we just like to point...

April 26, 2013

That all-but-missing detail about Jeb Bush’s life

Catholics here in America have a very intense and interesting relationship with the mainstream press....

April 22, 2013

Untangling the Tsarnaevs’ Muslim ties, carefully

On Friday we asked readers to send in thoughts on good and bad coverage of...

April 20, 2013

Power to hype or downplay: On Gosnell and the NYTimes

Many in the media are indicating that they really want to move on from the...

April 18, 2013

Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher’s strength?

Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I...

April 17, 2013

Mysterious deluge of unreported Catholics

I'm on a few of those neighborhood list-servs. One of them is for area parents....

April 17, 2013

On Sarah Kliff’s mea culpa on Gosnell (a national story)

If you have been on Twitter in the past week or so, you probably know...

April 16, 2013

Out front: the stigma of mental illness

In 2011, I traveled to rural Oregon to report on a minister who helped bring...

April 15, 2013

WPost demonstrates how not to respond to Gosnell critiques, again

It's like drinking water from a fire hose. That's what processing all of the information...

April 14, 2013

Pod People: Media wake up to Gosnell failures

GetReligion's critique of media coverage of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial has received quite a...

April 14, 2013

Jewish Identity and the Western Wall

You couldn't, he thought, find three Jews in the world who would agree on what...

April 12, 2013

WPost reporter explains her personal Gosnell blackout

I've been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years. And so have many...

April 05, 2013

Washington Post tries to define ‘liberal’ in Maryland

There is much to applaud in today's Washington Post story that ran under the headline,...

March 2013

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 15, 2013

Flooding the papal coverage zone

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

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Bill Keller, et al, openly confess that “error has no rights”

As the debates rage on about you know what -- Washington. Post. Ombudsman. Bias. Column....

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...

December 2012

December 02, 2012

Washington Post’s ghostly top 50 list

It's that time of year when media outlets put out their best of the year...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Red-state American in her natural habitat

I gotta admit: Just a few sentences into this Washington Post feature on post-election Red America...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Democrats, Jesus and deer hunting in the GOP Sunbelt

For starters, as a culturally conservative Democrat who loved his years in Tennessee (and plans...