Maybe it’s appropriate to write about this on the morning of Sept. 11. How different would things be today if the terrorist attacks of six years ago had never happened?
NYT: Library moral equivalency?
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A notebook from Sept. 11
The guard dogs were out on the train platforms this morning as I headed into Washington, D.C., as they should be. It’s a kind of sad, gray, rainy day here inside the Beltway, and no one is talking about it. So I offer you the following from a friend of this blog, a piece of his lengthy post last night about his experiences in New York City on that clear, blue, slightly chilly morning — running toward the flaming towers with a reporter’s notebook in his hand.
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The GOP and Hispanic ghosts
Tucked away on page six of Sunday’s Washington Post was an update on the Republican Party’s efforts to increase its votes among Hispanics. The article focuses on Republican National Committee Chairman Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida and his awkward position as the first Hispanic face of the Republican Party in an election cycle when the Hispanic vote has dropped off and a predominant number of the 2008 presidential candidates aren’t exactly looking to push policies that appeal to Hispanics.
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More, please, on Jan Mickelson's faith
News pieces on talk radio hosts are always interesting to read since there is usually an abundance of material with which to work. These people talk for a living, usually three or four hours a day, and thousands of people listen to them.
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Dallas News faces its critics. Sort of.
America does not have many perfect newspapers. However, it appears that — when it comes with MSM struggles to cover religion — there is one down in Dallas.
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At the top of the SBC Fred story
As a rule, GetReligion doesn’t spend much time addressing the contents of the religious or denominational press, as opposed to the coverage of religion in the mainstream press.
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WSJ: How technology affects religion
My first real working newspaper experience involved a small-town weekly in small-town Indiana. Two memories stand out from this experience more than seven years ago: The first was the work (participating in just about everything in putting the newspaper together) and the second was where I stayed.
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Where's the irony?
The marital troubles between superstar couple Juanita Bynum and Bishop Thomas Weeks III have received little coverage beyond the straight news stories one would expect about people at this level of fame. There have been no New York Times think pieces or Newsweek analyses. This is not an easy story to cover.
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The Revealer seeks new heretics
It’s time for an update on the status of one of the other blogs that tries to monitor life on the Godbeat (or, perhaps, the beat of the gods). That would be the Jeff Sharlet (5Q+1 file here) project at New York University called The Revealer. Thanks to the omnipresent Ted Olsen over at CT‘s Liveblog for his tip on this one.
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