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I knew we had to take a look at Newsweek‘s cover story when I read the first line. It was just that bad. It was written by senior editor Lisa Miller who oversees all of the magazine’s religion coverage. Which is pretty shocking when you look at the unbelievable ignorance on display in her grossly unfair first paragraph:
Planned Parenthood of Indiana has been in the national news lately. The abortion provider’s offering of holiday gift certificates in $25 increments has received the most attention. However, the more important story has the organization appearing to have given council to someone on how to break the state’s law on reporting child sex-abuse.
Sometimes an artist appals believers by presenting a public work they construe as libelous or offensive. Those showings normally garner a fair amount of publicity.
I’m always amazed at how few people know that the Salvation Army is a denomination. People always think of it as a charity, which it is. But it’s also a denomination. Internally organized like a military service, the church has a reputation for serving the poor and destitute. And there’s the red kettle bell-ringing campaign that is ubiquitous around this time of year.
As the popular vote in California relating to how marriage is defined continues to meet with disapproval from Hollywood and others, the Associated Press has an article about where to place the blame for how the vote went down.
This is one of those weeks when one of my more personal posts here at GetReligion evolved into a rare first-person column for the Scripps Howard News Service.
In the aftermath of the election, there’s been a lot of coverage of Obama’s compelling Internet strategy, and how he might leverage online links with his millions of supporters while in the White House.
Some local ads here in Washington by a national humanist group have been causing quite a stir. Which is precisely what advocacy groups — and businesses, for that matter — want when launching an ad campaign. So kudos to them for getting some solid earned media with that ad buy.
The astounding historical and religious significance of last week’s attack is just now being revealed. Some of Tmatt’s questions from yesterday on why these terrorists targeted Jews have been answered, but much remains to be determined and many tough questions must be answered by journalists.
