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There’s a lot to digest in the Washington Post’s nearly 4,000-word political road trip to West Virginia, headlined “A blue state’s road to red.” Even at that word count â mammoth for a newspaper â it’s a definite challenge to boil down an entire state, its people and their attitudes and way of life into a single story.
The Dallas Morning News â which dropped its paywall Oct. 1 â had an interesting story this week on a mainline Presbyterian church split. This is a big one, folks:
I had a sense of deja vu this week as I clicked on a 2,000-word Wall Street Journal profile of Russell Moore:
The Associated Press has decided, apparently, that stories need to include only side. Stories about same-sex marriage, that is.
In one of my favorite scenes in the original  âShrekâ movie, the title character explains to Donkey that âthereâs a lot more to ogres than people think.â
As a reporter, I’m always amazed by how much I learn when I actually pick up the phone and talk to somebody.
