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There is so much that could be said about mainstream media coverage of Christmas this year. Religion reporter Frank Lockwood — who is moving to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette — had a post on his blog about a trend he’s witnessed. He looks at a few examples of mainstream media ridiculing Christianity during the Christmas season.
Peter Kann, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and chairman of Dow Jones, had a wonderful piece in The Wall Street Journal that I encourage you to read. Noting that CNN’s pre-election programming had names like “Broken Borders,” “Broken Government,” “Broken Politics,” he says the media, too, are in need of some mending.
I’m back in the great Hoosier state for the weekend, celebrating Christmas. I was given the opportunity to play in my high school’s alumni basketball game this evening and generally have had an opportunity to kick back and enjoy time with the family.
Let’s flash back for a moment to the eruption of Anglican warfare in Northern Virginia that drew so much press coverage last weekend.
It’s the question that all religion-beat specialists hear all the time, whether they want to or not.
Writing about atheism here at GetReligion would seem somewhat oxymoronic since we are well, a blog about the media’s coverage of religion. But even atheists have a degree of faith since it takes faith to believe that there is in fact no God out there.
Sometimes I think the best thing a reporter can do to improve his craft is be interviewed by another reporter for publication.
