Every couple of years, journalists and pundits proclaim the death of the red-state/blue-state divide in American politics.
Journalists mirror red/blue divide
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Scandal in St. Louis, again
I wonder exactly how many reporters the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will use to cover the Rick Majerus story.
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Anti-Catholicism at March for Life?
After my last post about whether young people increasingly are pro-life, several readers responded to my statement that the March for Life resembled a “gigantic Catholic pep rally.” There was no real disagreement about this assertion.
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A scream inside public-radio world (updated)
There are many, many quotable passages in that famous letter by New York Times editor Bill Keller, in which he responded to a blue-ribbon panel that produced a study document entitled “Preserving Our Readers’ Trust.”
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Don't shoot the messenger
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is not a stranger to her paper’s public editor column. In October 2006, former public editor Byron Calame discussed the problems that arose out of a speech she gave at Harvard University the previous June. That was the speech where she expressed some of her liberal political views, including:
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Doubts about the abortion generation
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Proving the value of religion reporters
There’s a controversy brewing in St. Louis that poses some interesting questions for journalists. St. Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus went to a Hillary Clinton campaign rally on Saturday night where he was interviewed by KMOV, a local television station. During the interview, he expressed some views that are not in line with Catholic teaching. Which wouldn’t be news if he weren’t also being paid $650,000 a year by a Catholic university.
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Fundies on the march, yet again
It is time to open up our Associate Press Stylebooks and read that entry, once again, about what is, sadly, one of the most popular words in modern journalism:
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McCain beats Limbaugh, DeLay, etc.
Trying to figure out how and why Senator John McCain triumphed over his competitors Saturday in the South Carolina primary is like trying to figure out why professional football teams have success in the playoffs. In other words, the calculus is not easy, but there are factors worth discussing.
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