One of the most important resources available to mainstream reporters is a solid, printed list of names attached to clear information or opinion about a hot issue.
Children of (postmodern) women
We talk about “ghosts” quite a bit at this blog, by which we mean religious issues that are hiding, uncovered, in mainstream news stories.
Solving that Mumbai mystery
Remember that truly bizarre passage in the Washington Post story about the massacre in Mumbai, the one that pondered the deep mystery of why the terrorists targeted Orthodox Jews and, well, other people who identified with the wrong world religions?
How not to cure a "Blind Spot"
What we have here is the first positive review of “Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion” that grasps the mission of the book, yet rejects our — or to be specific, my — proposal to address the problem. To cut to the chase, Herb Denenberg’s review in The Bulletin (Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper) argues that reporters in the mainstream media are so blind, dumb and biased that it is time — you guessed it — to kill off the idealistic concept of an “American model of the press” and move on to alternative, niche publications.
Old gods on rise in Greece?
Remember that strange story a few years back about all of those Brits who wanted to write “Jedi knight” or something like that in the official census form slot for “religion”?
Violent, hardcore evangelism?
Journalists in Colorado have a really hard, hard religion-related story on their hands. At the heart of it is the question of what to do when you are dealing with inflammatory, even terrifying quotations and they are, to pour gasoline on the fire, second-hand quotes.
"Jews totally run Hollywood"
As a rule, your GetReligionistas do not write about opinion essays or even op-ed columns — unless they raise issues that are of interest to mainstream journalists who cover religion. It helps if the pieces focus on major Godbeat stories, of course.
All kinds of Godbeat top 10s
All kinds of people do all kinds of Top 10 lists at the end of the year. Some people like ‘em, some people don’t.
