The cover story on this week’s Washington Post Sunday magazine was a 7,000-word treatise on a medical student deciding whether to become an abortion doctor.
All narrative, all the time
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Friends in high places
For public schools in Washington, despite their spending an average of $25,000 per year on each student, the educational results are abysmal. Some people have high hopes for the new chancellor Michelle Rhee but there’s a long way to go.
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Roman Catholic priest does not give birth
I am so sick of looking at the shoddy coverage of non-Roman Catholic priests who are female. But since it’s our job here to root out shoddy coverage, let’s look at this piece and then pray that the coverage improves. The latest one is from KSDK in St. Louis. The headline is: “St. Louis woman becomes world’s first Catholic priest to give birth.”
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There's that FOCA question again
Over at Time, reporter Jeff Israely has a piece up that asks a logical question — from the point of view of activists on left and right who are paying attention to (a) the pre- and post-election strategy wars inside the pro-life movement and (b) loud cries of distress from traditionalist religious leaders about President-elect Barack Obama’s vow to push for the Freedom of Choice Act.
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The meaning of exit polls
Remember the media narrative from the 2004 election? To explain how the country could have possibly elected George W. Bush for a second term, we were told that throngs of homophobic, Red America values-voters surged to the polls. Never mind that it wasn’t true. Bush got more evangelical voters than Republicans traditionally had, but he got more of all sorts of groups.
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Hey, Post newsroom! Read Dionne!
Love it or hate it, the Washington Post is a fine newspaper and it is very rare to see a story hit its front page with a large and glaring hole in it. But that’s what happened today, with the story that ran with the headline “Some Abortion Foes Shifting Focus From Ban to Reduction.”
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Some majorities are better than others
There are almost too many stories about California’s Proposition 8 to keep up. But let’s look at a few dealing with religious groups.
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When in doubt, quote the believers
For those of you who are looking for prime examples of the “big ideas” that motivate us at this here weblog, here’s one.
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Explaining excommunication
A few days ago we looked at some decent media coverage of a Roman Catholic Womenpriests story. A few more stories worth looking at have been filed or discovered.
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