In what Mother Jones called “the best journalism-job want ad ever,” a Sarasota Herald-Tribune editor pitched an investigative reporter job by writing (language warning):
Koran conflagration, redux
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Go for hajj ... immediately
The Washington Post has a provocative story about the Justice Department suing a Chicago school district for outright religious discrimination. The reporter does a great job of writing the piece in a thorough and impartial manner. The facts are stated, multiple viewpoints are offered, and the result is a very interesting piece. Here’s how it begins:
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A palatable, comfortable Christianity?
I don’t watch MSNBC much but quite a few readers and friends sent along this video of host Martin Bashir interviewing Pastor Rob Bell. This one interview has turned into a kind of media event in and of itself.
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Ghost in the missing-child report?
So what we have here is a mysterious CNN report that raises way more questions than it answers and, frankly, the kinds of questions that readers are able to raise about this story are making me frustrated.
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Facing Mecca for Lent?
I’m still here in Israel on an Act For Israel media fellowship. After many days, packed with meetings, yesterday we visited the Golan Heights. On our way from there, we stopped at Yardenit, a site on the Jordan River where, in honor of Jesus’ baptism near there, some are baptized into the Christian faith.
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'O Crusaders! Our war with you will continue ...'
When dealing with bloody events that take place in the Islamic world — such as the beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl — mainstream reporters often argue that these events are essentially political and, thus, have little or nothing to do with religion.
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Terror or 'terror' in Israel?
I’m in Jerusalem at the moment, on an Act for Israel media fellowship. Sunday was our first day of activity and it was utterly exhausting. We began with a visit to Yad Vashem, the site for Holocaust remembrance.
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'Sectarian' clash between Copts and mob?
Journalists must keep the following fact in mind while covering the ongoing tensions and occasional violent clashes in Egypt — the Muslim community is not monolithic. As we keep saying here at GetReligion, there is no one Islam.
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WPost vents on Peter King, then does its job
If you are a regular reader of the Washington Post, you have grown used to seeing carbon copies of the same column day after day on the op-ed page. This column starts like this, care of Eugene Robinson:
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