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In the aftermath of GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s statement that he is a Baptist and not an Episcopalian, the Associated Press followed up and did something of a clarification story by getting some more comments from the always-media-accessible Arizona politician:
I made it to Prague just fine, with no help from the construction war zone that is called Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. You don’t want to know about it. OK, let’s just say that airport terminals designed to be linked by trains do not work well when there are no trains.
I am headed to Amish country today with a bunch of Orthodox men for a kind of old-fashioned guy’s day out adventure — various bonding rites planned, including something involving hot-rod tractors and lots of noise. However, I will keep my reporter’s hat on and I’ll let you know if I meet any Amish people who are speaking in tongues. OK?
As some GetReligion readers may know, my wife is a professional librarian at a public library in Anne Arundel County, Md. Thus, it is no surprise — with a librarian married to a journalist — that whenever we move into a house the first thing we do is build about 18 to 20 feet worth of bookshelves, to add to the free-standing units that we already have.
One of the crucial principles in Associated Press style is that, when in doubt, reporters are supposed to let groups of people define themselves.
In the Sept. 10 edition of The New Republic, Bruce Bartlett complains about the response to his pointing out that Scientologists once led the fight for replacing all income taxes with a national retail sales tax:
I meant to post this flashback last night, but was caught up in that server crash that shut GetReligion down for several hours.
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.
It’s too bad that “Contrarian” is already taken as the name of a standing column in Time, because contrarianism has been Michael Kinsley’s default setting for decades. During his years as one of the hosts of Crossfire, Kinsley regularly dismissed pro-lifers with a Frenchman’s wave by insisting that they either should advocate jailing all women who had abortions or they lacked the courage of their convictions.
