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This isn’t really a breaking news story, but it shows up in newspapers from time to time. This is how I started a Scripps Howard News Service column on the topic several years ago:
Then you click here, where you will read the following by Michael Landauer of the Dallas Morning News.
It appears that there is yet another new religion-news blog in this here marketplace, courtesy of USA Today religion-beat veteran Cathy Lynn Grossman.
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.
A Christmas controversy has been brewing between the Green Bay City Council and an atheist-rights foundation that objects to holiday displays at city hall.
As I have noted in the past, there are newspapers out there that make it very easy to find their religion news reports — no matter what section — and there are those that just don’t get it.
As the Divine Ms. M.Z. noted the other day (and Mark did, as well), many mainstream reporters who are covering the controversies about Mormonism seem to accept, as fact, that disagreements between traditional Christians and Mormon Christians are rooted in misunderstandings or bigotry.
Early this month, I put up a major religion-news post, while offering no commentary about it whatsoever.
When it comes to covering the Youth With A Mission shootings, journalists in the mainstream media are still searching for a template to use.
