Back in the 1980s, when I was at the Rocky Mountain News, I covered the long legal battle between St. Mary’s Parish and the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado.
Warping the Anglican wars
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Making that last cultural statement
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Evidence of things not seen
So The New York Times covered Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s first Mass in New York. This is a good thing. Depending on when and how you accessed the article, its headline was either:
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Cover the 1054 schism -- in a sentence
One of our informal house rules here at GetReligion is to try to give reporters the benefit of the doubt, when we spot something fishy, unbalanced or downright messed up in a news report.
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Communion at the Elks Club (21 years)
I rarely post my weekly Scripps Howard New Service column here at GetReligion, but this week is a unique situation.
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Faith and the Zen bishop-elect (updated)
If you search the World Wide Web for the name of Father Kevin G. Thew Forrester and the word “bishop,” you will find that an ocean of digital ink has been spilled in coverage of the bishop-elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan. However, once again, you will find that this is apparently a “conservative” news story, with most of the “news” reports running in alternative, conservative publications and stirring up responses in advocacy media on the left.
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NYC's archbishop, in digital and analog
An interesting questions that my students keep asking about Internet journalism is whether information that is printed in online publications — as opposed to ink-on-paper text — is “real.”
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Fourth time's a charm?
Yesterday I noted a Detroit Free Press story that referred to a Good Friday Mass at a Catholic church. No Mass is celebrated on Good Friday but the service is called the Mass of the Presanctified. So I sort of gave the reporter a pass, even though it violates Associated Press style guidelines.
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Under the gaze of St. Joseph
I must confess that I was pretty harsh, when it came time to pass judgment on that Easter-free front page of the dead-tree-pulp edition of the Sunday Washington Post.
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