Journalism

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Deciphering the Fred Thompson supporters

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The former Tennessee senator and actor Fred Thompson has withdrawn from the 2008 presidential race, and leading candidates are lining up to try on the big shoes of the only candidate who once played the president in Hollywood. More than half of Thompson’s support came from Christian evangelicals. Where will those voters go? Both Romney and Huckabee are laying claim to that support. Does McCain have a chance at picking up that support?


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Don't shoot the messenger

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New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is not a stranger to her paper’s public editor column. In October 2006, former public editor Byron Calame discussed the problems that arose out of a speech she gave at Harvard University the previous June. That was the speech where she expressed some of her liberal political views, including:


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Proving the value of religion reporters

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There’s a controversy brewing in St. Louis that poses some interesting questions for journalists. St. Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus went to a Hillary Clinton campaign rally on Saturday night where he was interviewed by KMOV, a local television station. During the interview, he expressed some views that are not in line with Catholic teaching. Which wouldn’t be news if he weren’t also being paid $650,000 a year by a Catholic university.


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McCain beats Limbaugh, DeLay, etc.

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Trying to figure out how and why Senator John McCain triumphed over his competitors Saturday in the South Carolina primary is like trying to figure out why professional football teams have success in the playoffs. In other words, the calculus is not easy, but there are factors worth discussing.


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Muslim athletes and their clothing

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For being on page A1 in The Washington Post, the article earlier this week on a high school athlete disqualified from a track meet for wearing clothing intended to be modest for religious reasons is missing a few things. Fortunately, we have the Internet, and the captions on the online photo gallery fill in a few details that were lacking from the story.


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Checkmate! (an update, no correction)

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The iconoclastic chess genius Bobby Fischer – one of the most unique public figures of the Cold War era — lived a bizarre life that blended astonishing victories with mysterious choices that, to others, looked like intentional failures or lapses of judgment or something. You can read all about that in the New York Times obituary for Fischer, simply by clicking here.


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Where do babies come from? Part II

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One of the questions that we hear from time to time is why GetReligion devotes so much attention to abortion since, from the point of view of some readers, the issue is political or scientific, but not “religious.” Meanwhile, there are many supporters of abortion-rights who insist that people who oppose legalized abortion are — pure and simple — guilty of “trying to force their private religious beliefs” on other people.


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