Week after week, your GetReligionistas receive mail from people who genuinely distrust or dislike America’s mainstream media.
Frustration, from time to Time
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Hallelujah, praise the Big Book
It’s the Holy Grail. It’s the holy writ. It’s as if the words “had appeared from somewhere on high.”
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A slightly-over-the-top political ad
Everyone claims that they don’t like negative ads but the truth is that they’re an effective way for someone to gain ground against a political opponent. So usually it’s the political challenger who goes negative against the incumbent. But this being the crazy year it is, more incumbents are vulnerable and going negative. One of those is Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla.
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Got news? Partisan, partisan, partisan
What we have here is a highly partisan op-ed page piece — it’s written by Jim Towey, a George W. Bush staffer — on an openly conservative editorial page that bluntly protests a situation in the mainstream press that certainly looks painfully partisan.
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That gap between 1985 and 2002
Once upon a time, there was a Catholic priest in Louisiana named Gilbert Gauthe. As Time magazine wrote:
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Obama visits Fenty-friendly church
Surely it’s a comment on the state of things in Washington, D.C., that the mainstream press considered it a big story that President Barack Obama decided to go to church. I mean, he went to church out in public, as opposed to attending a private service at Camp David.
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Suspended for a nose ring
Piercings are a sore subject for me. I had to work (keep my room clean for several months) to get permission to get my ears pierced at 13. It was clearly a sign of privilege (and a tool for my parents to hold me under their thumbs). I reminded my father of this recently and he said, “I did not realize we made you keep your room clean. I guess we should have had you write a research paper on ear piercing.”
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Missing First Amendment discussion
Forsyth County, Georgia v. Nationalist Movement was a 1992 Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech. Forsyth County had this ordinance that mandated permits for private demonstrations. County administrators decided on the fee, which was only up to $1,000. When a group of white nationalists proposed a demonstration against the Martin Luther King, Jr., federal holiday, they were levied a fee of $100. They sued, claiming the ordinance violates their free speech guarantees. The Supreme Court agreed.
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Eastwood looks to eternity
On Saturday, I watched “Dirty Harry” for the first time. This was the beginning of an expedition through Clint Eastwood’s big-bark-and-all-bite police series. It followed through the “Dollar” spaghetti Western series in the spring. And I have to say, there is so, so much more to Eastwood than just “Unforgiven,” which, of course, was great.
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