I wanted to open this little post with a fresh piece of “Choice Chick” art, but I could not find any online.
The nonexistent further news coverage of "Choice Chick"
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(Not) preaching to the New York Times choir
As you might expect, I have been getting quite a bit of email about the recent column by Daniel Okrent titled “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?”
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When journos push causes
The July-August issue of Columbia Journalism Review hands a dart to KNXV-TV of Phoenix because news anchor Katie Raml spoke at two WISH List events. Here’s an excerpt of how the Darts & Laurels column describes Raml’s offense:
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Abu Ghraib and the blame game
A news report by The Washington Post‘s Caryle Murphy and a column by Frank Rich of The New York Times both explore the question of whether pornography helped create the atmosphere of abuse and sexual humiliation at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Giddy in newsrooms: Is gay-marriage coverage slanted?
Media-beat scribe Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post is getting knocked around a bit these days in the kingdom of Romenesko at Poynter.
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Cal Thomas airs out some of his haunted hate mail
A friend of this blog, Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, recently posted a fun shout out on behalf of conservative columnist Cal Thomas.
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The Village Voice goes apocalyptic
The Village Voice raises some fair questions about why officials from the Bush administration are discussing foreign policy with what the Voice calls “apocalyptic Christians,” but it could do a better job of understanding basic theological categories. Reporter Rick Perlstein writes in an urgent tone about the Apostolic Congress, which represents members of the United Pentecostal Church. (R.G. Upton, pictured with the Bushes and his wife, leads the Washington lobby.)
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Kerry and the bishops: What Would Lincoln Do?
The story of Sen. John “Call me JFK” Kerry and the Catholic bishops is going to roll on for awhile. There all kinds of hooks that journalists have not really explored yet, such as the nature of the divisions among the U.S. Catholic bishops and how these fractures are linked to other issues within Catholicism. For example: Do Catholics still need to go to confession? How often?
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Just another ordinary religion story in need of a strong photograph
Javed Anjum was an 19-year-old Christian student in Pakistan who died on May 2 of “renal failure,” after suffering broken ribs and loss of eyesight. It also seemed that someone had yanked out his nails.
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