I will offer no comments at all. I assume there will be more than enough commentary over at Poynter.org on this one.
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Can journalists get Revelation?
Of all the stories readers and friends sent along to me today, the one headlined “Man Sees ‘Mark of the Beast’; Cuts Off, Microwaves Hand” is the most memorable. There’s really no way to get into this so I’m just going to post the entire story:
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Bizarre sports term of the week
You may have noticed that the professional sports arena is, well, a bit soiled at the moment. All kinds of people — including some muscular Christians — are finding out that repentance is never an easy thing to do in public.
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Youth in search of a mission
When dramatic news events occur, early reports can be riddled with errors or, by necessity, relatively shallow. Sometimes the best coverage comes days, weeks, months after the event. Los Angeles Times reporter Nicholas Riccardi had such a piece on Youth With a Mission, the group that was victimized by Matthew Murray in the Colorado shootings earlier this month.
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Repeat after Meacham
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s cover story on what the magazine calls “A New American Holy War” reads less like a news report than a sometimes exasperated prep-school instructor’s departmental memo about a pair of bickering students named Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. A quick aside about Newsweek‘s headline: Calling a lively religious debate in primary season “A New American Holy War” is like referring to door-to-door evangelism — whether by Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses or Southern Baptists — as “Spiritual Waterboarding.”
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Mapping a gunman's path
When it comes to covering the Youth With A Mission shootings, journalists in the mainstream media are still searching for a template to use.
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Handling a hot potato
Okay, so I hate delving into more political coverage, but recent stories about Mike Huckabee are just begging for criticism. To lay my cards on the table, I’m opposed to most all government encroachment and as such find Huckabee to be my worst nightmare. I know many readers here love Huckabee and others love every other candidate along the spectrum. More power to you all. However, we should remember to keep discussion focused on media coverage of this religion story rather than the political issues themselves.
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Add the ex-Pentecostal piece to the puzzle
News accounts about the shooter who killed four people at a Christian missionary center and church in Colorado have been quoting anti-Christian rants he posted on the Web. Using the name “nghtmrchld26,” Murray spilled out increasingly disturbing diatribes on a forum where former Pentecostals discuss any number of issues.
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Theological fire under all that smoke
It’s about the theology, of course, not the politics. There are plenty of Catholics, Orthodox, evangelicals and mainiline Protestants out there who plan to vote for Gov. Mitt Romney or who can contemplate that issue without getting into discussions of heaven and hell.
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