A Twitter post by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, voicing frustration with the budget deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama did just that:
Devil is in the (religious) details
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Times and Catholics: Call to journalistic action
Once again, we face the same question when discussing a New York Times news feature about the Church of Rome.
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Where's the grass-roots reporting?
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Bachmann's vague faith appeal
I’m not a huge fan of news stories about advertisements because it seems a little lazy on the media end for not finding more original stories and it often just fuels the ad even more. Some outlets do a nice job of fact checking the ads to make sure the claims are accurate, but there’s a lot of wasted energy on “X releases ad targeting opponent.”
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A little bit of (nothing) news
I live in flyover country, so maybe this won’t surprise you, but I haven’t wasted a lot of time or energy worrying about the budget debt crisis.
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What he said (about Norway)
At this point, I think most journalists have reached the point that they know that Anders Behring Breivik (a) has self-identified as a “Christian,” (b) yet he also made it clear that he is not a Christian believer, in terms of beliefs and practice and (c) that it is bizarre to call him a “fundamentalist,” in any historic sense of the word.
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From Arne Fjeldstad: Belief? Ideology? Faith?
EDITOR’S NOTE: GetReligion readers may not know the byline of Arne H. Fjeldstad, unless they have clicked through to the Media Project website on our left sidebar.
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Guilt by footnote association
The initial reports that attempted to paint terrorist Anders Behring Breivik as some type of Christian fundamentalist have fizzled out as reporters have gotten access to his actual manifesto explaining (such as he is able) his actions last week.
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The Atlantic has this terrorist all figured out
Ever since I saw the first pictures of the horrible bombing in Oslo, I’ve been glued to Twitter trying to make sense of everything.
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