As the old saying goes in hurricane territory, “I think we’re in for a bit of a blow.”
LAT: Is the pope Catholic?
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Cue the theme from "Jaws"
So, are many newsrooms in the allegedly “American” media poised to plunge back into history and become “European” newspapers again, publications that openly advocate specific political and even theological points of view?
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An African taking vows in America
From time to time, your GetReligionistas are accused — accurately, I might add — of whining about the fact that many religion stories in the mainstream media are too short, too shallow or have too many holes in them, world without end. Amen.
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Attention Catholics with empty schools
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Silence of the Christian book sellers
This may be turning into a “theme week” for me here at GetReligion. Call it the “dog that didn’t bark” week. Or maybe I need to run that lighthouse joke — again. Remember that one?
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What's it all about, Alfie?
I’ll ‘fess up, OK? I confess that I have been paying a bit of attention to the latest “What in the ^#@* has gone wrong with England story?” That would be the train wreck of coverage about young master Alfie Patten, the baby-faced (this word is included in almost every UK story) 13-year-old who has just become his land’s most famous baby father.
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Who wants to be No. 50,000?
As I type this, there are 49,980 comments attached to the 4,157 posts spread out over the five-plus years of life here at GetReligion.
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Shameless plug for a student
Here’s a hard-news story that I have been interested in, ever since some of the details of President Barack Obama’s stimulus and tax plan began to surface. Thus, I have been watching for mainstream coverage of the topic.
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JournoList vs. GetReligion
All week, I had people asking what I thought about THAT story, you know, the Politico piece about the top-secret online congregation of liberal journalists that has been helping keep the left on message for the past two years.
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