On the night before he was assassinated, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the now famous “Mountaintop” speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn.
Press doesn't get King's real dream
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Shallow looks at faith-based hate
A significant story is brewing in California as diverse groups of people with clashing social values conflict with the American promises of religious freedom and tolerance. The themes of the stories are filled with religious values and terminology, but some news articles are not quite as precise or as informative as they could be.
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Donald Wuerl, master of the archdiocese
Jacqueline L. Salmon of The Washington Post wrote what I consider a very regrettable story about Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl. Salmon’s mini-profile of Wuerl, written in preparation for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit, was shallow and unfair, the sort of story that the Archbishop detests and rightly so.
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Wright stuff: T.D. Jakes has a blog
It appears that a major, mainstream American newspaper in a powerful American city has published an article about a Pentecostal or conservative African-American minister reacting to the controversy about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., and all of those sermons that have done so much to make Sen. Barack Obama’s media life interesting in recent weeks.
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Why are pro-life Democrats marginalized?
Here we go again. I do not want to revisit this topic so soon, but I have no other choice. Reporters this year are still missing a big story: the marginal status of pro-lifers in the Democratic Party.
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Wright stuff: Soap suds and salvation
As I mentioned the other day, I haven’t been seeing a lot of mainstream coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., that spends much ink on the religion side of this story. Politics continue to rule the day (surprise, surprise).
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Depressing story of the week
What role did journalists play in the fact that one out of every ten Americans believes Illinois Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is of a religion other than Christianity? A depressing poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that ten percent of Americans mistakenly believe that Obama is a Muslim.
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John Hagee and Hitler's pope
Let’s face it, Republican GetReligion readers. You are out there, bracing for the moment when the Rev. Pat Robertson (a) speaks his mind on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, (b) endorses Sen. John McCain, (c) begins his pre-hurricane-season Bible commentaries or (d) all of the above.
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Dying for your faith
It must be very difficult to maintain any sense of journalistic objectivity while writing about a family’s religious beliefs when it is almost certain that those beliefs are linked to the death of a child.
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