There are days when the age of specialty websites and reporters are especially cruel to the old guard in the mainstream press.
For Sun editors, this one had to hurt (updated)
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Rowan Williams exits Canterbury, round 1
Words cannot describe how much I pity the journalist who has to try to write — in roughly 18 inches of type — a mainstream news report on the decision by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to step down from his beleaguered throne at the ripe old age of 61.
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Religious liberty story gets headlines
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Santeria, Catholicism and Cuba
What is a Catholic Cuban? Or, better yet, who can be a Catholic in Cuba? An Associated Press story that looks at the forthcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba through the prism of his refusal to meet with Santeria leaders makes some claims on these points. But are they valid?
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Got news? Communion for a Buddhist?
While the late Pope John Paul II — soon to be called St. John Paul the Great — was known as a strong supporter of interfaith dialogues that attempted to build trust, while declining to erase any true boundaries.
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Young spirits dying in Russia
Here we go again. It’s time to chase another ghost. In this case there is a slim possibility that the following tragic story from Russia contains no real religion angle whatsoever.
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Newsweek covers "The War on Christians"?
For several years now (click here for an early post) I have been asking a rather basic journalistic question: “What is Newsweek?”
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Canadian honor killings and Islam
An Ontario jury has convicted three members of the Shafia family — father, mother and son of an Afghan family living in Quebec — of murder in what has become Canada’s most notorious “honor killings” case. There has been some great crime and court reporting in the Shafia case, and the articles in the major newspapers are really quite good.
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BuzzFeed on Mormon, well, you know ...
It’s a subject that causes editors to sweat, knowing that their newsroom switchboards will almost certainly to explode if they dare to cover it. We are talking, of course, about (cue: drumroll) Mormon underwear.
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