I think it’s time for another fun online game, although with a different, uh, twist than the GetReligion drinking game dreamed up by Religious Left Online.
Hey, Dallas, meet the evangelicals!
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Is W Bush's faith too liberal?
I realize there are people who read GetReligion who believe that Peggy Noonan is on the payroll of the White House — pick a GOP White House, any GOP White House — and that she is simply a fax machine for NeoCon talking points.
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Who are Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal?
During this busy week, I have been watching to see if two men’s names showed up, at any point, in Google News.
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On breaking up
There’s turmoil over at the Christian Coalition. Florida megachurch pastor Joel Hunter, who supports raising the minimum wage, opposes the death penalty and wants to take on global warming, was scheduled to take over Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition in January. But according to The Washington Post‘s Alan Cooperman, the organization’s chairwoman, Roberta Combs, has decided to rescind that offer.
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Blue Republicans singing the blues
Pity “moderate” Republicans. They are having hard times at the moment, as spotlighted in a recent New York Times feature by reporter Pam Belluck. The entire story is a master class in how to use and abuse weighted words such as “centrist” and “moderate,” even though top leaders at the newspaper know — and have said they know — that this is a sore point with readers.
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Landmines in abortion reporting
The Washington Post has a religion-heavy article on Nicaragua’s therapeutic abortion ban. Until a few weeks ago Nicaragua permitted abortions to be performed on women who had been raped, whose babies were abnormal or who faced medical risk, according to reporter N.C. Aizenman. Abortion opponents claimed that the loophole for therapeutic abortions was being abused.
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Stop asking about the guy's underwear
Nothing annoys me more thatn when people want to talk about another person’s underwear. Particularly when there are more important things to talk about. For this reason, this post will remain brief.
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In praise of valid news angles
Can you believe it was less than one month ago that we first discussed coverage of Ted Haggard’s fall from prominence? As November has progressed, we have seen quite a few stories related to the ordeal. The early days of the story focused on the hypocrisy angle, about which I highlighted an alternate view.
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Round up the usual suspects!
Sorry for the delay on this one folks. I have, for some time now, been meaning to post the link to some interesting comments from the noted Vatican watcher John L. Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter. In a way, it’s a meditation on the need for reporters — especially when covering Roman and American Catholicism — to dig past the easy layers of official sources and talk to real people on both sides of the church aisle.
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