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As we have watched the gossipy headlines roll past in recent days, I have found myself contemplating this question: Is it possible for anyone whose last name is “Cheney” to take a public stand that is not purely based on political considerations?
At this point, I think it is safe to say — as our own Bobby Ross, Jr., has demonstrated numerous times — that many mainstream American journalists have decided that there is no need to cover both sides of gay-rights stories in a balanced and accurate manner. Many professionals in the mainstream press are now practicing a brand of advocacy journalism when covering religious believers whose religious/moral doctrines are not the same as their own.
A major media organization has published still another one-sided story on the religious debate over same-sex marriage.
It says a lot, in this financially tight age in American newsrooms, when editors put a reporter on an airplane and send her halfway across the nation to hear somebody preach.
This story is getting very, very familiar and it’s clear that these lawsuits are happening for a reason.
There’s nothing the mainstream press likes more than a controversy, even if it has to puff a protest to do so.
Surely it will come as little surprise to faithful readers of this hear blog to learn that your GetReligionistas are not fond of the term “devout Catholic,” a foggy, meaningless label that is used way too often in mainstream news reports.
The Dallas Morning News â which dropped its paywall Oct. 1 â had an interesting story this week on a mainline Presbyterian church split. This is a big one, folks:
