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I just received an email from the Rev. Dr. Arne H. Fjeldstad of Norway, the Lutheran pastor and veteran newspaper editor who is the director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, which is the organization that brings you GetReligion (be patient, that website is just getting started).
There seems to have been a major misunderstanding of my post about veteran religion writer Julia Duin’s “Killing Eve” series in The Washington Times about sexism in India, with its main focus centering on gender-selection abortion of unborn females.
What if you picked up your morning newspaper and discovered that one of the nation’s veteran religion-beat specialists was beginning a massive four-part series on sexism and women’s rights in India. Would this surprise you?
Over the past quarter century or so, I have written my share of stories and columns about traditional Catholics who yearn for the return of the Tridentine Mass.
The story is ugly and lurid, packed with the kinds of details that are almost impossible to include in mainstream news coverage.
When I was on the religion beat, one of the questions that leaders in a wide variety of religious groups used to ask me went something like this: “Why do the (insert colorful word here) Episcopalians get so much coverage in the mainstream media?”
We are now in day two of the post-Dar es Salaam world and the focus is moving — as it should in U.S. newspapers — back to the local and national angles of this global Anglican crisis.
A long, long time ago, I remember a comment that a city-desk editor made when reporters started using the really early laptop computers (photo) to cover live news events. Everyone was excited because this was going to streamline the shipping of stories back to the newsroom, making it possible for reporters to write closer to deadline on breaking stories.
It’s hard to know where to start with all of the coverage of the Anglican primates story, now that the late-late-night negotiations are over and the official statements are out.
