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First things first, now that some of us have reached the festive 12-day season we’ve all been waiting for — Merry Christmas! This raises another question for me, a media question covered in a nice way the other day by a feature in the Los Angeles Times.
Greetings from the mountains of North Carolina, where the wonderful folks at the Dotcom Café have left their wireless working so that obsessed people can sit in the parking lot and do their email.
Let’s flash back for a moment to the eruption of Anglican warfare in Northern Virginia that drew so much press coverage last weekend.
It’s the question that all religion-beat specialists hear all the time, whether they want to or not.
Want to see a major missed opportunity to show a key scene in what simply has to have been a complex and rich human drama?
Here inside the cloistered alternative universe called Washington, D.C., many politicos are paying an unusual amount of attention to the health of Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota. The latest, as of 42 minutes ago as I begin typing, is that he has been conscious at several times since last week’s emergency brain surgery.
Every time I sit down at a computer keyboard to write a 700-word column about the global Anglican wars, my head starts spinning.
While the votes have been announced in those two historic Episcopal parishes, we really won’t know much about the actual media coverage of this event until tomorrow’s full-length reports are out in the elite newspapers.
Tomorrow is a giant news day in the Anglican wars, which is a global story that also has an American angle, a New York City angle, a Virginia angle and a Washington suburbs angle.
