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As always, the High Holy Days season has inspired quite a bit of coverage of issues linked to modern and postmodern Judaism. Covering the major religious holidays can be a chore for Godbeat veterans, since we are always looking for some hook that is both new and newsy. It’s hard work to get it right. Trust me, I know.
For the past week or so, I have been searching the website of The Baltimore Sun trying to figure out whether the editors there know anything about the existence of Father F. Richard Spencer.
Every now and then, news coverage of a topic or an idea gets into the digital bloodstream and simply, as the popular saying puts it, “goes viral.” It really helps if the story is given a punch headline that causes lots of people to click “comment” or to post notes on Facebook. You know the game.
We live in the age in which print and video forms of journalism are merging into something new and, at this point, uncertain.
Back at the beginning of the crisis in the mineshaft 700 meters below the surface of Chile’s Atacama Desert, Sarah Pulliam Bailey quickly noted that spiritual issues were sure to arise in this story. Would journalists recognize this?
For some reason, it does not surprise me that a Google News search for the phrase “disgusting religious-cultural roots” currently yields little or nothing in terms of information or commentary from reporters in the mainstream press.
Excuse me if I head deep into the tmatt guilt folder and make a point or two about a story that I’ve been mulling over for more than a week.
One of the hardest things to explain to people who have never worked in a real newsroom is why some events are news at one moment in time and in one location, but a similar story is not news at some other time in some other location.
