Terry Mattingly

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Headline most likely to be corrected, pronto

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As I have explained before, one of the most painful realities that reporters face is that the vast majority of news consumers do not understand who writes, and who does not write, the all-important headlines that top news reports.


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Post returns to military cemetery (landfill)

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We may have an answer to the unspoken religious questions in a shocking story that broke about a month ago here inside the D.C. Beltway. Do you remember the pre-Veterans Day headlines in The Washington Post about the military remains — partial remains and body fragments — that were, well, taken out to a nearby landfill? Click here for a reminder of what went down.


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NYTimes struggles to label Eddie Long

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Before we examine a slice or two of this recent New York Times piece about Bishop Eddie L. Long, I feel the need to ask a few basic questions about this troubled church leader’s theology.


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"Born-again Muslims" and, uh, the trinity

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What we have here is one of those puzzling or even coffee-spewing (for those who drink coffee) moments when you are reading through a perfectly normal story involving religious themes and you hit a reference that makes you stop and say, “Did I just read what I thought I read?”


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Newt, Newsweek, evangelicals & Rome

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Before we get to one of the Beltway issues of day — the surging Newt Gingrich and the evangelicals of Iowa — I have a question for GetReligion readers who are, or have been, Newsweek subscribers in recent years.


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