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I take this piece, by the Canadian LifeSite, to be a reproduction from The Interim, the Toronto-based “pro-life, pro-family newspaper.” That would account for the odd dateline (“CYBERSPACE”) and for the author’s feeling it necessary to explain the terms blogs, bloggers and blogrolls.
In the mid-1990s, I had a chance to speak to some editors gathered in a Bible Belt city — let’s leave it at that — about how to improve religion coverage at their newspapers.
When you read about a sporting event, the first thing you what to know is who won and who lost. The same thing applies to elections and U.S. Supreme Court cases.
More than two decades ago, my graduate advisers at the University of Illinois gave early approval to the idea of me writing my final project about the state of religion coverage in mainstream American newsrooms, which I also condensed for The Quill. One professor was skeptical, until I brought him a copy of the Associated Press’ top 10 stories for the previous year. At least six of the stories were linked to religion.
So what do you think? Should Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer create a national network called "Jews for Christmas"?
As we were hoping earlier, Religion News Service has deigned to cover the efforts of the Committee to Save Merry Christmas.
A long, long, time ago, during a press conference with Rep. Patricia Schroeder of (D-Colo.), I asked a question that I thought was perfectly logical. At the time, she was one of the most outspoken voices in the U.S. Congress on every imaginable progressive cause, especially abortion rights and other issues linked to the lifestyle left.
