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I’ve been gone for nearly a week to the rain-drenched Texas Hill Country and, during that time, I received all kinds of email about that remarkable page-one essay by William Lobdell of the Los Angeles Times about how his work on the religion beat knocked the foundations out from under his Christian faith. Click here for the quick post I wrote about that essay during my travels.
The big political news in the Democratic Party is that Hillary continues to hang on to the loyalty of a majority of the party’s voters.
The editors of the Los Angeles Times made an interesting decision when they decided to give page-one play to religion reporter William Lobdell’s soul-searching essay, “Religion beat became a test of faith — A reporter looks at how the stories he covered affected him and his spiritual journey.”
Jolly good (and other silly things that Americans think we are supposed to say to sound a wee bit British). Texans would say, “Thanks a bunch.”
As for me and my blogmates, we will be avoiding the media hurricane of spoilers and debates surrounding all of those Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows scans, leaks, early mailings and embargo-busters. But I will scream “Boooooooooooo!” at the Baltimore Sun for publishing the last line of its early review. No, I will not provide a link.
I have had a number of requests to go ahead and post my tribute to the late Doug Marlette. However, the column is already up at the Scripps Howard News Service home page, so click here if you want to see the full text.
One of the many, many things that we GetReligionistas do not do very well is handle religion news carried on broadcast and cable television. There is, however, a good reason for this. Actually, there are several of them.
Long ago, before I started writing about religion news, my dream was to be a journalist who covered all forms of music — rock, jazz, classical, folk, you name it. If you have hung around GetReligion for a while, you may know that already.
