Time for a quick trip into tmatt’s infamous GetReligion file of guilt.
So, does Los Angeles need a 'conservative' newspaper or not?
Please respect our Commenting Policy
From Reuters: Another by-the-book Womenpriests story
At this point, it seems that mainstream journalists have decided that the Womenpriests movement deserves a slow-rolling wave of coverage in which (a) it will clear that the women are operating outside the official borders of the Roman Catholic Church, but (b) the viewpoints of movement leaders will be quoted as gospel truth when it comes time to discuss why the nasty male church leaders believe what they believe.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Secular-sacred union between Washington state hospitals
Suffice it to say that your GetReligionistas frequently receive emails that sound something like this:
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Baltimore Sun drops ball in profile of a preacher's son
The following has become a GetReligion mantra, when it comes to mainstream media coverage of sports and religion. If journalists are going to play the God card, especially in the ledes of major stories, it really helps if they are willing to devote some part of these stories to detailing the role that faith plays in the lives of the athletes who are being profiled.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
That all-but-missing detail about Jeb Bush's life
Catholics here in America have a very intense and interesting relationship with the mainstream press.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Yes, we know two Orthodox bishops are missing in Syria
Editor’s note: This happens now and then, every two or three years. Two GetReligion writers jumped on the same news subject and then proceeded to write and post at precisely the same time. What are the odds? In this case, we will simply let the two posts stand as written.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Journalism and the first few minutes after childbirth
There is nothing new about journalists arguing about the loaded language that surrounds our public debates about abortion.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Behold: A pretty fair tribute to George Beverly Shea
Longtime GetReligion readers may recall that I grew up in Texas in the 1960s and early ’70s, the son of a Southern Baptist pastor. Suffice it to say that I have been to my share of Billy Graham meetings, back then and as a reporter on the religion beat in Denver and elsewhere.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Womenpriests again: The people vs. newspaper scenario
Please respect our Commenting Policy