Earlier today, I made a personal appeal to The Telegraph: Please don’t steal my quotes.
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The messy side of journalism
Done right, journalism can be downright messy, filled with complex subject matter and competing voices — all given a fair chance to explain their points of view.
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Pod people: What's a religion 'story,' anyway?
We had a lively discussion the other day (click here to go to the comments) about the post in which I offered my take on the annual Religion Newswriters Association poll that names the top religion news stories — note, “stories” — of the previous year.
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Getting cute with Father Cutie
Remember Father Alberto Cutie, a.k.a. “Father Oprah”? He was the, ahem, “hunky” and popular Miami priest and media personality who was caught in some rather compromising tabloid photos gallivanting on a beach with one of his parishioners. It was a big scandal at the time — it even made the New York Times. Well, guess what — he’s back!
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Haiti = Snore?
The anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti comes next week, and you can probably guess what will tend to lead the coverage: [Insert politician or celebrity] [insert "visited Haiti" or rehearsed statement].
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Pakistan's 'religious right'?
Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab Province, was assassinated by one of his body guards yesterday.
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NPR wrestles with Orthodox calendars
It must be so confusing to try to cover the churches of the East in the context of North America. Things are so complicated here in the New World.
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Getting a Jewish "get"
New York Times religion columnist Mark Oppenheimer has another fascinating piece about how a religious divorce dispute has led to a protest. Here’s how he frames the story, which was running prominently in the online version of the paper:
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Click here. Click here. Get confused
This pair of stories has been around for a long time, stashed away in my thick GetReligion guilt file (which needs its own logo or something). I haven’t written about these two stories because I have not been able to figure out what I want to say. Logical enough?
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