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Time for a dip into my GetReligion folder of guilt, that file into which I put stories that I really want to write about when I finally get a few minutes, somehow, to read them carefully and then write a post.
The news coverage, so far, about the alleged threat of violence against Pope Benedict XVI has been cautious to the max — as it should be.
If there is anything that your GetReligionistas appreciate, it is people who take the nuts and bolts of religion news seriously. While this website’s primary audience is mainstream journalists — editors, reporters, producers, you name it — we also know that we have plenty of faithful readers in academia and also in pulpits.
I have always thought that papal trips — especially to lands that stage regular media circuses — are the Olympics of religion news. The big problem, of course, is that the pope is WAY too important to be covered by mere religion-beat professionals. You have to break out the media superstars and political/cultural reporters and that’s where the real fun begins.
So here is your assignment. Read the top of the following story in the Los Angeles Times and try to spot the religion ghost.
This is one of those cases in which your GetReligionistas are tempted to simply put an item up on this here weblog and say …
Today’s gay-marriage story in the Washington Post (the newspaper really needs to develop a logo for this regular feature) focuses on another complication in this major change in the laws of the District of Columbia. What happens when one of the two partners is not a citizen of the United States?
So at this point, which subject interests you (or bores you) more, the Rev. Terry Jones story or the story about the story of the Rev. Terry Jones?
