Behold this observation, offered in the comments pages the other day in the wake of this weblog’s 4000th post:
Familiar hole in Gallup poll news
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Altars to an unknown goddess
I have always been fascinated with intentional religious communities and the New York Times ran a news feature on one the other day that was very well done — with one serious gap.
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Style choices on abortion talk
It would be hard to write a more angry, snarky headline than the one atop that piece by Ken Shepherd that the Newsbusters crew shot over the bow of the nation’s best known evangelical magazine.
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Crown of victory in the arena?
A football fanatic friend of mine whose very name screams predestination — Calvin — noticed something interesting in the prayers last night during vespers.
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Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, Catholic
I know it will be hard, but for a moment try to ignore the fact that former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is an African-American.
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Veggie love vs. the love of life
The other day, I wrote a rather nakedly personal post here about that CatholicVote.com ad about the rather interesting and obvious fact that, faced with a crisis pregnancy long ago, the mother of President Barack Obama decided to let her unborn child live, and thrive and make history. It’s the YouTube at the top of this post, again.
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Oh no, a modern patriarch?
One of the mantras of modern journalism is, “Show me, don’t tell me.” In other words, when in doubt use images and information that describe people and events, not tacked-on labels that are often vague and judgmental.
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Behold, this is post No. 4000
There is nothing special about this particular GetReligion post, other than the fact that this is post No. 4000 in the history of this here weblog.
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Symbolic win for gay rites! News?
After nearly three decades on the Godbeat, and 15 years in the classroom, I am still fascinated with basic questions about the process of reporting and writing the news. But, before you report and write a story, you have to decide if a particular event, trend or statement is or is not news.
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