Terry Mattingly

October 9, 2006

Catholicism, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

Cue the theme from Jaws

Terry Mattingly

October 9, 2006

Catholicism, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

Attention all reporters who cover God and Hollywood, although not in that order.

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Terry Mattingly

October 6, 2006

Evangelicals, Journalism, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly, Politics

Couric courts Red America?

Terry Mattingly

October 6, 2006

Evangelicals, Journalism, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly, Politics

Bless her heart, I think Katie Couric — in an attempt to tweak her image in Middle America — tried to engineer herself a Sister Souljah moment the other night. There are reports that some of her staff producers and reporters freaked out.

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Terry Mattingly

October 1, 2006

Evangelicals, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

Who's calling who "gospel"?

Terry Mattingly

October 1, 2006

Evangelicals, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

We don’t cover entertainment reviews very often, unless we’re talking about a movie that is making news. But a friend of mine sent me some links that raise an interesting issue linked to the language that journalists use to describe music, and that has always been a subject that interests me.

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Terry Mattingly

September 28, 2006

Academia, Evangelicals, People, Pop Culture, Social Issues, Terry Mattingly, Politics

RU 4 freedom of T-shirt speech?

Terry Mattingly

September 28, 2006

Academia, Evangelicals, People, Pop Culture, Social Issues, Terry Mattingly, Politics

Earlier this week, The Washington Post had one of those slice-of-life news features that took an everyday topic from real life and framed it in a way that put it on page one.

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Terry Mattingly

September 27, 2006

Catholicism, Evangelicals, Journalism, People, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

Please. Pretty please. Can we ask Katie ...

Terry Mattingly

September 27, 2006

Catholicism, Evangelicals, Journalism, People, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

So what are the questions that faithful GetReligion readers would like to ask Katie Couric?

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Terry Mattingly

September 26, 2006

Evangelicals, Journalism, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

Revenge of VeggieMadonnaGate!

Terry Mattingly

September 26, 2006

Evangelicals, Journalism, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

We have entered a quiet stage in the VeggieTales/Madonna wars involving what religious believers can and cannot say on NBC. I have held off for a couple of days since the last update in order to watch for developments in this story and, sure enough, we had some more over the weekend.

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Terry Mattingly

September 22, 2006

Evangelicals, Journalism, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

The pain of "lead time" (revisited)

Terry Mattingly

September 22, 2006

Evangelicals, Journalism, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

What the heck is going on with NBC and the VeggieGate — or is it MadonnaGate — story?

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Terry Mattingly

September 20, 2006

Catholicism, Journalism, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

Oh, the weekly pain of "lead time"

Terry Mattingly

September 20, 2006

Catholicism, Journalism, Music, Pop Culture, Terry Mattingly

I shipped my weekly “On Religion” column into the Scripps Howard New Service copy desk at about 7 a.m. today. Then I went about my business and headed into work a bit later than normal.

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D. Pulliam

September 19, 2006

Daniel Pulliam, Journalism, Pop Culture, Islam-Muslims

Failing to explain traditions

D. Pulliam

September 19, 2006

Daniel Pulliam, Journalism, Pop Culture, Islam-Muslims

Labels for premarital rituals are oddly controversial. Whether you call it dating, courtship, hooking up or just hanging out, these labels carry with them all sorts of baggage.

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