Get Religion is a national and global journalism site focusing on how the mainstream press covers religion news in politics, entertainment, business and sports.
Readers will have noted several references in our work to another site on the Godbeat beat — The Revealer — which is based over in the J-school at New York University. (I say over at NYU because I live in Palm Beach County, the virtual Sixth Borough).
Still catching up with recent magazine stuff as we get this blog rolling. There was an interesting point recently in the Weekly Standard about religious terms and definitions and labels. This is important, because we are about to enter into another hurricane of election-year speculation on the power or lack thereof of the Religious Right. Right?
Most media were fairly restrained in covering the weekend’s news that an American Airlines pilot asked Christians to raise their hands and share their faith during a flight from Los Angeles to New York — but some headline-writers had fun with it: “Coffee, Tea or Jesus?” (CBSNews.com), “God only knows what this pilot was thinking” (The Winnipeg Sun) and the inevitable “On a wing — and a Prayer” (Herald Sun, Australia).
And this just in: a particularly interesting comment from a veteran out there in mainstream-journalism-land. He-she-it wishes to remain “noname” for obvious reasons.
OK, I understand the tensions between Mel Gibson and his hired guns, when it comes to relating to the secular news media in the months running up to the release of the final cut of his movie.
Anyone (with a high-speed connection) seeking the viewpoints of the Democratic candidates on God issues can pay a visit to the video page of the Interfaith Alliance.
