While most election results came in Tuesday night, it was not until Saturday morning, appropriately, that we discovered where values voters stood.
Someone's mocking, Lord, kumbaya!
Every now and then, it’s OK for experienced, skilled journalistic specialists to let their hair down and have a little fun.
On hypocrisy
When Mike Jones went to the media with claims that New Life megachurch pastor Ted Haggard had paid him for sex and meth, he said he did so because of Haggard’s hypocrisy. Jones said he felt that Haggard was a hypocrite because he preached against homosexual behavior while also engaging in it.
Gasp! There are pro-life moderates?
The mainstream press is still working its way through the “what it all means” stage. Here is The New York Times trying out different ways of saying that the new Democrats who gave their party the Hill majority are not “bright blue.”
Colson: It's character, stupid
GetReligion focuses on mainstream media, so we rarely pay much attention to religious media. We do pay attention, however, if writers over there choose to focus on issues in mainstream media coverage of religion or, like some of the pronouncements of Dr. James Dobson, they have things to say that are news in and of themselves.
On story selection and privacy
I’m not sure if non-journalists understand how much of a news outlet’s work depends on the selection of stories. Here at GetReligion, we tend to focus on problems with the way a given story is treated. Whether it is treated at all is a bigger issue.
Barabbas, the IRS and church-state law
As we like to note around this here blog, there are issues in church-state law that almost always produce unity among the experts, even among experts on opposite sites of those familiar cultural divides.
People in pews had new options
Henriques fires back at DiIulio
Pardon me as I do a bit of housecleaning on this rainy day after the election here inside the Beltway.
