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Radio guy Todd Wilken really ambushed me late this week when we hooked up to do the latest “Crossroads” podcast (click here to download or here to listen on your computer).
Former New York Times editor Bill Keller is alive and well and is continuing to address a question that should be of great interest to all news consumers: Has the world’s most powerful newspaper evolved into a partisan, advocacy news organization?
One of the complaints your GetReligionistas hear the most is that we spend too much time complaining about the same old things. Why can’t we just understand that the stupid and/or enlightened members of our mainstream media are never going to do W or X or stop doing Y and Z and just move on?
Let me state right up front that I think GetReligion readers are going to have very strong feelings — positive or negative — about the following “Column One” feature from the Los Angeles Times. It ran under the following double-deck headline:
Violent, chaotic events are hard for journalists to cover — period. This means it is especially important to pay attention to second-day news reports.
At this point, I am getting very tired of the word “sectarian” in reports from the fiery streets of Cairo.
The Divine Ms. M.Z. Hemingway is on the road right now, but I can still pass along this item from one of her emails to the GetReligionistas circle. It concerns a rather strange headline about Mitt Romney, America, God and world domination.
So let’s say that you are reading a lengthy story about a famous Baptist preacher from the deep South, from a location in the heart of the Bible Belt.
