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As you would expect, I am still following the coverage of the Radovan Karadzic case, still looking to see if anyone is going to provide on-the-record information to back up all of those charges that the world’s most infamous war criminal had, at some point, been hiding in Orthodox churches or monasteries.
Attention all journalists who care about religion news coverage in the mainstream press. I have some bad news and some good news.
Most of this week, I am swamped with classroom work for the Oxford Centre for Religion & Public Life, which is holding a seminar in Washington, D.C.. So I have had very little time for reading newspapers and blogging.
I don’t know if there is a publication in Russia that is similar to The Onion, but GetReligion reader Lars Doucet sent me a story the other day that had me going, thinking that it was some kind of cruel satire or parody. But this story wasn’t from a Russian publication, it was from The Telegraph.
Once again, one of the Beltway’s best-known journalists who is an active Catholic is facing a life-and-death crisis.
Out there in cyberspace, insiders seem to be doing some fresh thinking about their love-hate relationships with their regular readers and frequent comment-part writers (including trolls). I took a stab at that topic the other day here at GetReligion, so you can click here if you want to see that.
A reader who is, at the moment, rather upset with the GetReligionistas sent me a story the other day that he wanted us to critique. It’s from the Los Angeles Times and briefly tells the story of the LA police chief’s decision to donate money to the organization that is fighting the ballot initiative against the legalization of gay marriage.
In recent days, I have continued to comb the coverage of the Radovan Karadzic arrest, looking for clues that might indicate where reporters were getting the tips that this monster had spent parts of the past few decades hiding in Eastern Orthodox monasteries and churches.
At first glance, there really isn’t much going on in this little Detroit News metro feature entitled “Pastor believes prayer can save city.”
