Even as we head into beautiful fall color changes, we’re still talking about Chick-fil-A apparently.
Remember Chick-fil-A? Still making news!
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LATimes on Chick-fil-A: Where's the journalism?
A long, long, time ago — almost a decade, in fact — there was a Los Angeles Times editor who wrote a letter to his section editors in which he defended solid, old-fashioned American journalism. You know, the kind that strives to accurately quote informed voices on both sides of controversial issues, perhaps even in a way that promotes informed, balanced, constructive debate and civic life.
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Sacrificing journalism on altar of gay advocacy
A few weeks ago, departing New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane said something everybody already knows:
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Sad closing of a Washington Post-friendly parish
One of the hardest concepts to explain to people who have never worked in a newsroom is why some events in a city are “news stories” in the eyes of most journalists and other events, that seem similar, are not.
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That all-powerful, faith-free White House voice?
So, The New York Times ran one of those lengthy news features the other day that set out to penetrate the walls of Barack Obama’s White House and show readers what is really happening on the inside, in the halls of power that are the center of all that is important in the universe.
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A chuckle, a grumble and a question mark
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Guilt, grief and God: a gay son's suicide
About that high-profile claim that a political and cultural progressivism “literally bleeds through the fabric” of The New York Times:Â Anybody catch the story on Tyler Clementi’s parents leaving their evil, gay-bashing evangelical church?
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Women who support Akin's rape claims? Not really
One of the best strategies journalists can use when dealing with religious people — especially those with intense and even unusual, beliefs — is to give these folks some time and space in which to explain what they do believe (and often what they do NOT believe). I have been waiting for a major news publication to attempt this approach with supporters of Todd Akin’s stunningly strange beliefs on conception and rape, if such people can be found and accurately quoted.
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So what's the problem in Maryland pews?
Whenever you read one of those reflective essays on how The New York Times serves as a cheerleader for progressive causes — thank you, M.Z. — what you really need next is a kind of chaser to clear the journalistic palette.
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