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Journalists must keep the following fact in mind while covering the ongoing tensions and occasional violent clashes in Egypt — the Muslim community is not monolithic. As we keep saying here at GetReligion, there is no one Islam.
If you are a regular reader of the Washington Post, you have grown used to seeing carbon copies of the same column day after day on the op-ed page. This column starts like this, care of Eugene Robinson:
I realize that, in the world of blogging, many folks — take your GetReligionistas — are pretty open when it comes to talking about where they are coming from on topics directly linked to their writing.
It’s been 12 months since the District of Columbia legalized gay marriage, so it’s no surprise that the Washington Post marked the anniversary with some bonus coverage of the issue. When I say “bonus coverage,” I mean that the editors published even more stories on gay rights than normally appear in a daily edition of the newspaper.
If you are interested in reading a really great news story about pancakes, The Newspaper That Lands In My Yard has just published a really fine one. It has lots of butter and syrup.
As the May 1 date for the beatification of Pope John Paul II draws closer and closer, readers can expect more and more stories about that this rite means and what it does not mean. A key part of making that distinction will be explaining the steps that remain ahead for those who are trying to make the case that the man they call John Paul the Great should, in fact, be declared as a Catholic saint.
Please let me make a few things clear before we look at a short, but very disturbing, Associated Press report out of Egypt.
By definition, Supreme Court decisions are national stories. However, the Westboro Baptist Church case remains a local story here in Maryland because this is where this particular case started — with the tiny independent church’s hateful media fest near the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder in Westminster.
