I am not a big Huffington Post reader, but I do pay attention to the blogging of a friend of mine named Mark Joseph, one of those journalism students who went to the dark side and works in Hollywood. MJ just shot off an interesting critique of some of the early U.S. Supreme Court coverage […]
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I had to read this dispatch by a Rome correspondent for The Economist a few times to see if I had missed anything: some hint of parody or that refined sense of British irony perhaps. Alas, the report was just as humorless, shrill, and petulantly PC as I had thought. The subject is author Oriana Fallaci, […]
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Jonathan Turley is troubled, in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, by how Supreme Court nominee John Roberts answered a question by Sen. Dick Durbin. Durbin is, like Roberts, a Catholic, but one who has no trouble ignoring his church’s teachings on abortion while he serves in the Senate. Turley describes Durbin as asking Roberts […]
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I decided to look in the Reporter’s Holy Book, by which of course I mean the AP Stylebook, to see what those gods of style have to say. The entry for abortion reads: “Use anti-abortion instead of pro-life and abortion rights instead of pro-abortion or pro-choice.” I guess only one side gets to choose their name. […]
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New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets has published “The Rabbi Who Loved Evangelicals (and Vice Versa),” in the cross-town competition’s New York Times Magazine. Chafets’ report of nearly 4,500 words is a deft and wry portrait of Yechiel Eckstein (left), an Orthodox rabbi and founder of the Chicago-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Chafets describes […]
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When I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I wrote my master’s thesis on the struggle in mainstream newsrooms to improve coverage of religion. A short version of that turned into a 1983 cover essay for Quill. On the 10th anniversary of that cover piece, I did a Quill update on […]
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In his latest column for The Times of London, Matthew Parris tries to pick a rock out of his shoe. He chastises his fellow journalists for reporting stories based on the limited facts available and then dropping those stories when they don’t pan out: The habit is more disliked by listeners and readers than I think […]
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Regular readers of GetReligion will know that we don’t spend much time blogging about religious media, unless it is a site that offers very solid information that is of interest to mainstream Godbeat reporters. The work of Ted Olson and the CTi blog crew leaps to mind. There are valuable sites on all sides […]
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So a man repeatedly beats his three-year-old son and shoved him into a box, which induced shaking, vomiting, and, eventually a coma. The boy died this January. The father is claiming that he beat the hell out of the kid in order to keep his son from becoming a “sissy” or going gay. All of these […]
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A film featuring exploding vehicles, men with rippling biceps, lots of gunfire, women of the big bosom — it must be the latest work of Michael Bay film or a project aimed at “giving succor to the religious right.” Come again? Bay’s latest film, The Island, raises questions about cloning, you see, and it engages in the […]
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