A reading, according to the Stylebook of the Associated Press.
God's role in Mark Sanford's redemption story
God â and South Carolina voters â decided Tuesday to give disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford a second chance.
Media continues to 'Gosnell' lots of abortion coverage. Why?
This blog played a bit of a role in highlighting Gosnelling, the media practice of ignoring or downplaying politically inconvenient abortion news (see, for example, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). It wasn’t great prior to that incident, but the mainstream media has an even worse credibility problem when it comes to reporting on abortion news. So I’d hoped we’d see some efforts to improve it.
Buddhism and horse-race politics
Campaign journalism is a favorite of reporters and readers alike. I am not a fan, finding the horse-race coverage to be frustrating. But with just one campaign of national interest right now, it’s bearable.
Pennsylvania reporter shows how to correct an error
Last week, a sad news story out of Pennsylvania made the rounds. Originally, it had a bad headline and lede:
Media treatment of Mikey Weinstein under scrutiny
Earlier today I mentioned some questions I have about this crazy “court-martial” story that blew up this week. The post is headlined “I share, you evangelize, they proselytize,” in reference to GetReligion reader Will Linden’s saying about how the same action can be described in different ways.
I share, you evangelize, they proselytize
Defense Dept. say proselytism is banned but evangelism is ok (and no one’s getting court martialed) ow.ly/kERmC
Brave religious protestors fight the devil in Oak Ridge
My goal is to write a relatively short post about a very, very long Washington Post story, a Style section story that I urge all GetReligion readers to check out.
