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“Out the door” means that I am going to be on the road for the next few days and so will Doug. I will post when I can during lectures at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. I am sure that it will be a relaxing time, since there are never any controversies in Waco concerning religion and journalism.
Los Angeles Times media columnist Tim Rutten (access requires subscription) is asking some serious questions about the media blitz that is driving the same-sex marriage wave from the blue-state Northeast to the blue-state West.
There have been some interesting comments on the pro-abortion-rights spell checker issue, so I’d like to respond a bit.
Friend of the blog Rod Dreher has a fine story today in the Wall Street Journal, digging behind a national Godbeat story (studies on Catholic clergy abuse) to find a small story that illuminates the big one. Dreher is a national-level writer on this issue and many others who is hidden inside the editorial pages of the Dallas Morning News.
Laurel Snyder is the Jewish Student Life Coordinator at the University of Iowa and, as of late, she also has worked overtime as the official spokesperson for all of Jewry — or at least Jews that live in certain zip codes near certain newspapers. She does not seem to have enjoyed this ink-stained role, according to her essay at The Revealer.
Goodbye, Babylon, a boxed six-CD set of music and sermons distributed by a startup called Dust-to-Digital, has led to some remarkably faith-friendly writing in recent months. Here, for instance, is veteran reviewer David Fricke in the Jan. 29 Rolling Stone:
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.
