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There are so many positive things that I want to say about the gripping Time news feature that ran under the following double-decker headline: “Mexico’s Meth Warriors: Fueled by Evangelical zeal and America’s appetite for meth, a provincial Mexican gang breaks into the big time.”
What do you know? If you travel north of the border, you’ll find that Canadians who are interested in mainstream media coverage of religion news are talking about many of the same subjects as folks down here in the United States.
One of the first tasks that young journalists face when they arrive at a mainstream journalism internship is having to write a bunch of those short news stories that newsroom folks call “briefs.”
So if American football is almost a religion, especially on the high holiday called the Super Bowl, what does that make the real thing, the real sport that is played with the feet? If the World Cup isn’t a religious event — in terms of civil religion, sociology and global myth — then I would be hard pressed to find on.
Wow, what a day. To tell you the truth, I went straight into meetings immediately after I arrived at work and I have been swamped every since. Now, I am involved in family stuff (hey, a wedding looms in the very near future) and that’s going to tie me up all evening.
Once again, we need to flash back in time to look at that amazing and increasingly relevant memo that New York Times editor Bill Keller wrote to his staff in response to an in-house study of his news operation. You may recall that the study was called “Preserving our Readers’ Trust (pdf)“.
If you pay close attention to the coverage of Islam in the mainstream press, you may have noticed that there are three major themes:
So, the Los Angeles Times has published its giant salute to the life and times of John Wooden and, unless I have missed something, the bottom line is that he was an amazingly nice man of sterling integrity and a sense of honor and values that came from the American heartland.
