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The editors of GetReligion have commented frequently on Jon Meacham’s work, in part because he has shown such a frequent and keen interest in religion coverage. To his credit, Meacham has kept that interest keen since becoming the editor of Newsweek. Indeed, last week offered a fine competition between Newsweek and Time for best religion-based cover story (about which more in a subsequent post).
OK, football fans, is everyone else as tired of the horrid Domino’s Brooklyn Style Pizza ads as I am? If I hear “Fold it like a man!” one more time I think I am going to give up pizza for Nativity Lent or something radical like that.
GetReligion focuses on mainstream media, so we rarely pay much attention to religious media. We do pay attention, however, if writers over there choose to focus on issues in mainstream media coverage of religion or, like some of the pronouncements of Dr. James Dobson, they have things to say that are news in and of themselves.
Election day is finally here, which means that it’s OK for the Rev. Ted Haggard story to slip back deep inside the newspaper (unless it’s a Colorado newspaper).
It’s time for the little big show here in Washington, since the midterm elections are never quite as big a show as the big big show, which is a presidential election day. However, the presidential election does officially start at sunrise tomorrow, to hang in there.
The Rev. Ted Haggard story is now unfolding in a manner that is both dramatic and, for journalists, frustrating.
As several GetReligion readers have noted on the comment boards, the Rev. Ted Haggard has been fired.
Over the past few days, I have been watching the coverage of the Rev. Ted Haggard fiasco carefully to see how many journalists understand one of the most important facts in this story.
After a wild Friday on the Colorado Springs front, I think I can safely say that there is more news and fallout to come.
