Stop whatever you are doing. If you read one story this week, make it this one from Grantland.
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Urban Meyer faces his sins (ESPN offers crickets)
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Pod People: Romney, abstinent New Yorkers and (almost) Randy Travis
On the latest Issues, Etc. podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discuss my recent post on media coverage of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney going to church.
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Mormon Mitt Romney goes to church — with reporters!
Mitt Romney’s surprising decision to allow reporters to follow him into church Sunday drew a slew of major mainstream media coverage.
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The Economist chides Catholic Church on its finances
When a story uses extra adjectives or adverbs to pretty up a story, you know something might be fishy. If the information, data and narrative can’t speak for themselves, it’s worth reexamining the piece more closely.
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Revisiting tribes, sacred land and holy ghosts
Over the weekend, I complained about the holy ghosts in a New York Times story about disputed oil drilling on a Montana Indian reservation.
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Mitt Romney, consumer of sinful ice cream
As all loyal GetReligion readers know, sometimes we see things make it into news print that are simply too good, too strange, too funny, to make up.
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What exactly do these tribal members hold sacred?
Take a moment and peruse this fascinating New York Times report about disputed oil drilling on a Montana Indian reservation. Tell me what kind of story it is:
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Tebow at home (in church) in the Big Apple?
You know that you have moved into true Bible Belt territory when the locals start asking you — literally while the moving van is in your drive way — blunt questions that sound something like this: “Hey, do you folks know where you’re gonna go church yet?”
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