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Let’s face it, this is a spectacular hook for a story that blends sports with spirituality. The headline gives you an idea where the Washington Post team is going: “For Jaeger, the Point Is Love — Tennis Prodigy-Turned-Nun Wishes to Show Compassion She Once Craved.”
One of the hardest things to do in journalism is to do a fair, accurate story when you are covering an emotional, complex issue when one side of the story will not talk to you (especially if lawyers are involved).
It’s official. Judge Sonia Maria Sotomayor is a Catholic, or a “Catholic,” or something like that. Maybe.
Just what the U.S. Supreme Court needed — another Roman Catholic. This would make six out of nine, for those keeping track.
This is one of those cases when the mainstream press cannot be accused of burying the lede. The headline in the New York Times says it all (kind of): “2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First.”
One of the ongoing temptations here at GetReligion — for the GetReligionistas as well as the reader/commentators — is to focus on interesting events and trends in religion news, instead of keeping our unique focus on how the mainstream press attempts to cover those stories in an accurate, balanced, professional manner.
I am not an American Idol fan and have not seen a single minute of this year’s pop-machinery-industrial festival. I love music way too much to watch.
The last time that we checked in on the long, slow slide of the nationally known Dallas Morning News religion section, which became the more conventional religion beat, I wrote the following with a cyber-sigh:
