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Whenever I read in-depth coverage of disaster stories, I always remember something that the late Peter Jennings of ABC News once told me. For Jennings, disaster stories almost always served as perfect examples of how mainstream journalists fail to “get” the role that religion plays in ordinary life or ordinary people.
You remember Bishop Raymond Lahey don’t you, the Catholic bishop who was caught in a Canadian airport security line with very naughty materials on his laptop computer?
There are cities and regions in these here United States that, when you mention the name, certain foods instantly zoom into your mind.
I thought that I was done with the Mohave Desert cross story until I started digging a bit deeper into the Washington Post. That’s when I ran into an interesting collision between two different accounts of the same pivotal statement by the ever quotable Justice Antonin Scalia.
Anyone out there in GetReligion reader land who wants to read a truly depressing A1 feature story? That’s what the Baltimore Sun gave us the other day and, truth be told, I have a sense that there is much more to this story than made it into the newspaper — but I don’t think there is much that reporter Nick Madigan could have done about that (with one or two exceptions).
For die-hard NFL fans, the whole Bret Favre story has been kind of like a car crash in slow motion during an exciting race. It’s very hard to look away and, besides, this particular car may land wheels down and make it to the finish line ahead of, uh, the Pack.
The New York Times ran a very old story the other day, a story about a topic that has, in fact, been around for several decades.
Anyone who knows anything about the work of the conservative journalist and historian Marvin Olasky knows that he loves the old-fashioned advocacy journalism of America in the early 19th Century.
