I always found it odd when I was at The Jewish Journal that if I used the term tikkun olam, I had to explain to readers that it was a Hebrew expression for “repairing the world.”
Oh ... those apostles
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Sin-free softball? Not really
Tmatt posted last week on the saga of a lesbian softball coach whose team was kicked out of an adult women’s league by a Southern Baptist megachurch. He pointed out that “too many gaps and unanswered questions” characterized the coverage by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. If you missed that post, please read it first or this one won’t make any sense.
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Poor, uneducated and easy to barbecue?
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The problem with breaking news
Breaking news coverage is very difficult. The moment when people most desire updates coincides with the moment when a news outlet knows the least on the given topic.
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Is it Saint Swithin's Day Already?
So there’s a new movie coming out about the legendary (and I do mean legendary) female Pope of the 9th Century — Joan. It’s the job of movie directors to use good stories rather than tell accurate accounts of history. But we should expect more accuracy in media coverage. Let’s see how it’s going.
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Not your usual 'Inquisition' news hook
What do you know? If you travel north of the border, you’ll find that Canadians who are interested in mainstream media coverage of religion news are talking about many of the same subjects as folks down here in the United States.
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Putting the sol in solstice
A reader sent in a poor example of how to cover a major Pagan holiday — the Summer Solstice. The Telegraph devoted only a few words to how the festival was celebrated at Stonehenge:
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Strange AP mini-story of the week
One of the first tasks that young journalists face when they arrive at a mainstream journalism internship is having to write a bunch of those short news stories that newsroom folks call “briefs.”
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Don't ask, don't tell ... don't report? (Updated)
Religion News Service has a story about Southern Baptist chaplains opposing reversal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. An edited version ran in the Washington Post on Saturday. They aren’t terribly different but I’ll be working from the Post version for this post. Here’s how it begins:
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