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When “good girl” celebrity Jamie Lynn Spears announced she was pregnant, reporters cast their rhetorical stones at the fallen teen role model. As Monica Hesse of The Washington Post wrote:
This isn’t really a breaking news story, but it shows up in newspapers from time to time. This is how I started a Scripps Howard News Service column on the topic several years ago:
You may have noticed that the professional sports arena is, well, a bit soiled at the moment. All kinds of people — including some muscular Christians — are finding out that repentance is never an easy thing to do in public.
Oh my. Here is a quick, and really mean, little update on the state of The Golden Compass at the box office.
It’s kind of hard to kick a major movie when it’s down, but I still find the whole story of The Golden Compass quite fascinating.
Entertainment Weekly is an amazing magazine. I have been reading the magazine since day one and I remember thinking to myself back then, “It takes real talent and commitment to achieve such a consistently ironic, world-weary tone in your very first issue.”
The day that Redskins safety Sean Taylor was declared dead, Leonard Shapiro of The Washington Post wrote a column exploring the reasons for Taylor’s murder. Shapiro wrote that he could not say ultimately why Taylor was killed.
Are the makers of Bella trimming their sails? I can’t tell. They might be telling one thing to the religious press and another to the secular press. Or mainstream reporters might be blind to the religious angle.
