Big news out of Syria today. Here’s the top of a Reuters report:
How Syria's religious contours explain battle lines
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Germany's circumcision ruling makes believers anxious
A few weeks ago I started reading stories about how Germany had banned circumcision. Because of Germany’s historical treatment of Jews, and what that country has gone through to rid itself of its past, the story almost seemed hard to believe. But it was real and there was limited coverage of the move.
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Powerful portrait of persecuted Pakistani
That’s my first and prevailing statement concerning a Houston Chronicle profile this week of a Pakistani woman who suffered extreme persecution because of her Christian faith.
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Now Muslims can be hyphenated Americans, too!
Sometimes a word, phrase or sentence suddenly stands out. Perhaps I’ve seen this phrase before but it stood out. Here’s the top of an Associated Press story on a man charged with terrorism:
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Ghosts in the 'God particle'
Back in December, I highlighted a story about how scientists really don’t like the terminology of “God particle” to describe a theoretical subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. But the battle seems to be lost and reporters know that “God particle” is so much sexier than Higgs boson. Last week physicists in Switzerland said they would soon prove the particleâs existence and we saw another round of stories using the terminology.
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Kenya massacre: AP policy to bury lede?
Day after day, your GetReligionistas receive emails from readers that say something like this: “Please look at the following. Why do you think that (name of mainstream news organization) chose to (leave out or butcher a crucial fact) when covering this story? Is there something (some kind of politically correct policy) that requires them to do this?”
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"Islamists" (whatever that means) win in Egypt
As regular GetReligion readers will know, I have — for quite some time now — curious about what the word “Islamist” means when it is used in mainstream news coverage of the Islam, either in lands that are majority Muslim or those that are not. In other words, does “Islamist” mean one thing in Cairo and another thing in Detroit?
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Who are these 'Christian' missionaries?
A few days have passed since I first read it, but a weekend story from the Detroit Free Press keeps nagging at me.
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Reporting on a "shadowy Nigerian Islamist group"
For some reason I’ve been fascinated with looking at how different media outlets report the same news. Sometimes what they choose to highlight, the angle they go with, the people they interview, etc., are all the same. Sometimes they’re quite different.
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