Here we go again. It’s time to take another look at mainstream coverage of the White House campaign of Mitt Romney.
Mormons, misconceptions and media myths
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Why free will matters
Anytime a newspaper reporter tries to tackle the subject of philosophy in a serious way, it’s a good thing. Carey Goldberg’s report in The Boston Globe on Harvard professor Marc Hauser’s work to prove that morality is universally hard-wired into the brain is no exception.
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Readers lost in Sea of Reeds?
While I was covering the religion beat for The Charlotte Observer long ago, one of my editors stressed that I should not write in a story that a man said that a key moment in his life was when he “walked the aisle” and “accepted Jesus as his personal savior.”
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Here's a W library starting point
The last time we tuned in the Southern Methodist University soap opera involving the George W. Bush presidential library, we were seeing lots of people claim that, for the faculty, this was an issue of academic freedom and, for a vocal chorus of Methodist clergy, it was a fight over W’s sins against “Methodist values” in foreign policy and a hot cultural issue or two.
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A story with legs
Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard is in the news again. A few days ago his email to members of New Life Church was released to the media. Eric Gorski wrote up the story for The Denver Post:
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch
I tried to find a religious news angle for the Super Bowl halftime show so I could discuss how awesome Prince is, but I had to give up.
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LA Times mangles the Anglican timeline
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The power of the "tmatt trilogy"?
As we have mentioned in the past, it is very rare for local television stations to have a Godbeat specialist in their newsrooms. Sadly, it is just as hard to find a religion-beat professional in a national-level broadcast newsroom.
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Stranger in a strange land
Back in November when the Ted Haggard scandal broke, Terry said he hoped reporters would keep on the story. A service on Sunday provided a good reason to check back in on New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs. That’s because Mike Jones, the former prostitute whose allegations about having sex and taking drugs with Haggard broke wide on the eve of the 2006 elections, went there on Sunday.
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