One of my favorite corrections of all time ran in the Washington Post back in 1993:
Poor, uneducated and easy to barbecue?
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Manute Bol: Tall tower of faith
If you dig around on the Washington Post site you can find the following weblog post that quotes a U.S. Senate tribute by Sen. Sam Brownback to the late Manute Bol of Sudan, who, at 7-foot-7, with a fingertip-to-fingertip wingspan of 8-feet-6, was one of the most unusual athletes to ever play in the National Basketball Association.
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The problem with breaking news
Breaking news coverage is very difficult. The moment when people most desire updates coincides with the moment when a news outlet knows the least on the given topic.
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Huckabee in the holy lands
Last week we looked at a piece by Newsweek that suggested Sarah Palin was the new leader of the religious right. I suggested then that Newsweek should have at least mentioned one of Palin’s potential contenders: Mike Huckabee.
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Who you calling a radical?
A month ago I wrote about “Religion NIMBYs” in Tennessee who didn’t want a mosque built in their neighborhood. Here we go again, only this time the Tennessean didn’t assign its veteran religion reporter Bob Smietana. And the finished product reflected that.
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Not your usual 'Inquisition' news hook
What do you know? If you travel north of the border, you’ll find that Canadians who are interested in mainstream media coverage of religion news are talking about many of the same subjects as folks down here in the United States.
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Strange AP mini-story of the week
One of the first tasks that young journalists face when they arrive at a mainstream journalism internship is having to write a bunch of those short news stories that newsroom folks call “briefs.”
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Don't ask, don't tell ... don't report? (Updated)
Religion News Service has a story about Southern Baptist chaplains opposing reversal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. An edited version ran in the Washington Post on Saturday. They aren’t terribly different but I’ll be working from the Post version for this post. Here’s how it begins:
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The ‘Indian’ religion?
There’s been a lot of political coverage lately of Nikki Haley and the South Carolina gubernatorial primary. That race has been rife with religious ghosts ever since a state senator called Haley, a former Sikh who converted to Christianity, a “raghead.” Ever since then, supporters of her primary opponent Gresham Barrett have been trying to raise the issue of her religion in a rather slimy fashion.
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