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We’re beginning to get into the next stage of Hurricane Sarah, where professionals in the mainstream press (and those who study them) have a chance to catch a deep breath and ask that question that must be asked: “What in the heckfire is going on here?”
Remember that strange item the other day when the computer at the Los Angeles Times, for some reason, decided that a story on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and some “earmarks” bills should be listed at the newspaper’s “religion” site? Apparently, anything linked to Palin is “religious” at the moment.
I recently wrote a GetReligion post about the Rev. Joel Hunter’s closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention, the prayer that ended with that “On the count of three” pray your own prayer interfaith twist.
I realize that some of the following information is old news, yet I continue to hear comments from GetReligion readers and friends (and friends who are readers) about the fact that the press isn’t covering the religious left enough.
OK, I knew that this was coming. Yet part of me really didn’t want to admit that I knew it was coming.
I tried, really tried, not to add another post to the Sarah Palin parade today. Then the Divine Ms. MZ Hemingway found this piece of strangeness. But MZ is on her way to St. Paul for more freelance work and this online offering from the Associated Press is so interesting and, well, strange, that we really need to air it before the GOP convention tonight.
If you had any doubts, it has been proven that we are in an age in which the mainstream press is trying to figure out where the blogging ends and the news begins.
I have a bookmark set in my browsers that takes me straight to the Los Angeles Times page that contains the newspaper’s religion-news offerings, no matter where they appear in the newspaper.
What a week. In addition to all that is going on in religion, politics and the politics of religion, I am ultra-busy due to the arrival of this fall’s students for work at the Washington Journalism Center (my day job, in other words).
