If you’re looking for reflections on God and religion in mainstream news coverage of Elizabeth Edwards’ death, the hunt may take a while.
'Power of resilience and hope'
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An ex-con's missing conversion
The holidays seem to give reporters an incentive to look for heart-warming stories, ones the show someone overcoming struggle for eventual triumph. The Atlantic‘s food section features an inspiring story of an ex-con who is reforming his life through his job at DC Central Kitchen.
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Baltimore's most liturgical color -- purple
Long ago, in my Rocky Mountain News days, the Denver Broncos made a couple of trips to the Super Bowl. As you would imagine, newsrooms in Denver rolled out the heavy artillery to cover these events.
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Ghosts in the WikiLeaks
Each day brings forth new revelations from the WikiLeaks dump of diplomatic cables. As I’m writing this, I can read about tension between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Or about how Al-Jazeera, it turns out, isn’t independent from Qatar‘s government. And everyone is weighing in on whether WikiLeaks is the greatest thing to ever happen to transparent governance, or the worst. Even Umberto Eco.
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Nasty twist in prodigal son story
If you care about sports at all, you probably know that there was a rather interesting NBA game the other night in Cleveland, when the Miami Heat came to town.
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Losing faith after tragedy strikes
I’ve written several solder-dies-in-Iraq stories, so I know it can be quite uncomfortable for a reporter to waltz into someone else’s tragedy and capture the heart-wrenching details. Paul Schwartzman has written a beautiful story for the Washington Post about a father’s care for his son after a horrible beating.
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Return of (part of) the chaplain debates
It seems that we are going to see more mainstream coverage of those debates about religious liberty, military chaplains and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” So let’s back up and note a few basic fact, some of which were handled quite well in that CNN.com report that I praised the other day in the post called, “Chaplain questions older than DADT.”
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Inferences can't be made
It’s no secret that reporters struggle with statistics. But this story combines that problem with weak reporting on Mormonism and gay issues. And it is a doozy. This might be the most illogical and bizarre story I’ve read in some time. I passed it along to a few other reporters and they couldn’t believe it had been published. So with that, I present MyFoxPhoenix.com’s (KSAZ FOX 10 KUTP My45) “Suicide Rate Disturbingly High Among Arizona Mormons.”
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She forgives but can't forget
Please forgive (and, yes, that word will play a key role in this post) my inability to come up with anything more eloquent to say about an absolutely riveting news-feature from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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