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Your Getreligionistas have heard from several readers who want to know what we think of the mainstream media coverage of that fire — it was arson — that gutted the Wasilla Bible Church up in Alaska. In case you have been off the planet for several months, that is the home church of an outspoken evangelical woman by the name of Sarah Palin.
I find it absolutely amazing that the Washington Post would react to the cover story published by its sister magazine Newsweek by running the story in its Saturday editions.
The Newsweek feedback blog notes the Human Rights Campaign has launched an email campaign to thank editor John Meacham for his overall coverage of the same-sex marriage issue:
Should journalists clean up the language of the people they’re quoting? No, I don’t mean “clean up” like Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich might need his language cleaned up.
The big news at Kurt Soller’s Readback blog over at nonNewsweek comes at the very end of his Dec. 10 post.
Ah, December — the month of office parties, hearing “Jingle Bell Rock” in airports and reading incessant Top 10 lists. Time is ahead of the pack this year, rolling out 50 lists, and David Van Biema does the honors on the year’s top religion stories.
Tell me, you dedicated readers of religion news, can you imagine anything worse than seeing the following pairs of words in the same story — “Fred Phelps” and “Christmas wars.”
