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Here’s an example of a critical story finding its way from the blogosphere into print: In March the Rev. Sun Myung Moon managed to get himself and his wife crowned — in a ceremony inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building — as Ambassadors for Peace.
I think Doug and I now know what we want for Christmas. We want a blog software package that prevents people from making anonymous posts in the “comments” pages.
This is the kind of brief “news” story that makes me (a) laugh out loud and then (b) once I have laughed out loud, a wave of depression crashes in and I am tempted to rethink my opposition to the death penalty.
A personal note from Tmatt. In the past week, my longer post on the same-sex marriage editorial flap at Baylor has kind of run off and developed a life of its own. This past Sunday, a shortened version ran on the op-ed page of the Dallas Morning News. And, after noticing that the Baylor story seemed to have some legs, I have re-written the material again for use as my Scripps Howard syndicate column this week. The home page for my columns is www.tmatt.net, by the way.
I am still trying to learn the ropes in this blogosphere stuff. So I am wondering how to translate comments left by “michigancatholic” about our post on press coverage of the new reports on sexual abuse among Catholic clergy.
The quotation from A.J. Liebling is one of the most famous in all of journalism: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
Time for a personal favor. Doug and I are searching all over the web for something. We know of a cathedral or two — St. John the Divine in New York City leaps to mind — that have stained-glass windows with images drawn from journalism and mass media. But we can’t find these images.
Katherine Makinney wasn’t looking for a fight about abortion when she began advertising through Google’s AdWords program. She just wanted to promote a series of films, some by her and some by other directors, to receptive audiences, like church youth groups.
