In a memorable episode of “The West Wing,” Press Secretary C.J. Cregg is advised to save a few embarrassing stories for release on Friday.
'Take Out the Trash Day' for Boy Scouts?
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Another Catholic school shocks press with 'morality clause'
A reader sent in a story from Louisiana focusing on a Catholic-education topic that will — trust me — be in the news more and more in the years ahead.
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Washington Post tries to define 'liberal' in Maryland
There is much to applaud in today’s Washington Post story that ran under the headline, “Maryland’s leftward swing.”
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Flash! Cardinal says all people created in God's image
In a way, the existence of the short New York Times story that ran with this headline, “Dolan Says the Catholic Church Should Be More Welcoming to Gay People,” is simply a matter of journalistic math.
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Steubenville: Ties between rape and 'fundamentalist' teens?
Your GetReligionistas don’t spend much time digging around in the growing world of first-person, advocacy journalism. We realize that opinion is cheap and reporting new information is expensive and that managers of many websites are going to do what they are going to do, which is print more and more opinion pieces about big news events. This is the new reality, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it.
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Another hack piece by CNN ... maybe (Updated)
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Who knew Piers Morgan could be thought-provoking?
The Huffington Post’s Jon Ward is a thoughtful reporter and one who uncovers ghosts on his political beat with regularity. Earlier this week he wrote about the tension between evangelical morality and politics as it relates to changing marriage law to include same-sex couples.
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Who believes what in Egypt's debates about rape?
Let me be honest here and say what I truly want to say about the following New York Times stories: It’s about freaking time. Now, I say that both as a journalist and as one of those old-school supporters of human rights who still likes to quote, every now and then, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from that right-wing think tank, the United Nations.
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Marriage vs. marriage (or, What is marriage?)
Yesterday morning there was quite a bit of activity in and near the Supreme Court of the United States. You may have heard about that.
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