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It was the little Reuters story that launched 1,000 winking headlines as the week came to an end. Surely you saw some of them, such as the two that caught Mike Allen’s eye for Playbook:
One of the things we discuss here with some frequency is the awkward way stories get written so as to diminish or hide religious details. This is just as true with breaking news as it is with human interest stories. It’s frustrating and religious adherents can usually tell that there’s something missing — ghosts lurking in the shadows.
Many of us took courses in college we felt were unnecessary but few of us got to vent about it on usatoday.com. University of Iowa sophomore Allie Wright uses her space to complain about how she found a religious studies course to be fairly irrelevant to her major–journalism.
Just a random question that entered my mind as I perused coverage of the April 27 tornadoes that killed hundreds and injured thousands in the South — and I don’t imagine that there is one right answer.
I first posted on the impending end of the world back in early January, bidding farewell to life as we know it and voicing a few concerns about an Associated Press story.
Anyone out there in GetReligion reader land today who, for whatever reason, feels the need to get depressed?
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We’ve seen a wave of reactions to Osama bin Laden’s death from various religious groups, with everything from jubilation to condemnation.
If you have recovered from the royal wedding, the NFL draft, or whatever else captured your attention over the weekend, you can now direct your attention to an important ceremony that took place in Rome today. A few days ago, we talked about whether the royal wedding would overshadow Pope John Paul II’s beatification, but I was pleased to see many outlets devoting reporters and space to the ceremony. Media Bistro, for instance, reports that cable shows were up and running this morning on the story.
