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Thomas Chu of the Los Angeles Times has written a vivid feature about the copyright battle involving the 125-foot Christ the Redeemer statue that looms over Rio de Janeiro. Chu explains:
Media-beat scribe Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post is getting knocked around a bit these days in the kingdom of Romenesko at Poynter.
Sorry to be getting to this subject a few days late. I am teaching in Washington, D.C., for the next month or so and it has taken some time (technologically speaking) to get settled in. But I wanted to flash back to Doug’s post about the Newsweek cover story on the “Left Behind” guys (NASCAR team and all).
In this corner: Pro-choice bloggers and two San Francisco Chronicle columnists (Jon Carroll and Ruth Rosen) who object that the owner of Curves fitness centers donates money to prolife activities. In the other corner: Planned Parenthood?
One rarely gets to see a religion ghost hiding in the details of a newspaper’s all-powerful manual of language, style and grammar. But there one was, drifting between the lines of a New York Times article on the hot new shops that, for a few hundred dollars, allow a woman to buy sepia-toned ultrasound digital prints of her unborn child to give to family members and friends — by hand or email.
During the weekend and in the first few days of civil-marriage ceremonies for gay couples, the best coverage of the religion angle has come in sidebar stories. In mainbar stories, Christians who oppose gay unions make cameos like these in a Washington Post story:
What a time for Google to get messed up. As I started work on this post, Google News had some kind of technical problem that mixed up the URLs for stories on same-sex marriages in Massachusetts and those on the video decapitation of American Nick Berg.
It’s terrible work, but someone had to do it. Columnist Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News bravely leapt on a deadly radio the other day, daring to listen to another cycle of Air America programming so that others would not have to do so.
At least once a year, it seems, the ACLU supports a case that defies the expectations of its tougher critics. A few months ago, for instance, the group defended Rush Limbaugh’s right to keep his medical records private.
