It’s encouraging to see news outlets continuing to cover the death of a 14-year-old girl who was accused of adultery and sentenced to 101 lashes.
Uncovering ghosts in girl's death by lashing
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Dissecting a new Wiccan dilemma
As always, the goal here in GetReligion land is to dig into the nuts and bolts of religion-news coverage in the mainstream press. Truth is, this is easier to do when the coverage is bad than when it is good. Besides, when we praise coverage almost no one writes comments and these good-coverage posts do not affect the trolls who say that we hate the mainstream press.
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Pod people: Repent! If God will listen, saith Phelps
This is the last that you will hear from me for some time, I hope and pray, about the Westboro Baptist Church crew. Dear God in heaven, make it so.
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BYU fans love New Orleans (really)
With Brigham Young University still alive in March Madness, the news ripples continue to expand from the earlier coverage of the suspension of hoops star Brandon Davies for violating the school’s moral code. It isn’t surprising, in other words, that editors still have Mormon moral dilemmas on their minds.
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Christians who pole dance
One of the most tired religion angles can be found in stories with the following formula: Lots of people are [doing x], Christians put their own spin by [creating y], and people are responding by [saying z]. We see this with stories like using Twitter in church or a Christian twist on Yoga.
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(Blankety blank) Catholics and Rome -- again
The Catholic Cuomos of New York are constantly in the news, which means that journalists are continuously having to wrestle with adjectives.
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Covering an outspoken Orthodox shepherd
I have heard one question over and over in the past three or four days: “What do you think of the Washington Post Magazine story about the whole uproar in the Orthodox Church in America about Metropolitan JONAH?” Or words to that effect.
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Scaring the hell out of you
A Missouri-area student is like many others who have tested their school’s limits, only this one offers a religious twist on a t-shirt. Michelle Ramirez, 12, was pulled from class after wearing a shirt with the phrase in all caps, “Jesus, he scares the hell out of you.”
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Ghost in the missing-child report?
So what we have here is a mysterious CNN report that raises way more questions than it answers and, frankly, the kinds of questions that readers are able to raise about this story are making me frustrated.
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