GetReligion fell silent last week on the several stories about Rolling Stone rejecting an ad for Today’s New International Version Bible. Why?
Hey, Zondervan: Next time try more kitsch
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Greater Trumps: On the Sunday morning after
Some of you may have heard that we had a wedding down here in Palm Beach County. Yes, Donald Trump’s third trip to the altar did receive a little bit of media attention here and elsewhere.
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The good bad news
In a story that must have been in the can for a while, Newsweek reports that 271 independent members of what used to be known as the Christian Booksellers Association closed down in 2003. No word on store closures for 2004, but Bill Anderson, president of the CBA, “estimates that 200 more are sputtering.”
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L.A. Times plays it straight on some hot stories
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the Los Angeles Times is on a tear these days on the religion beat? Several times a week, the newspaper’s push-tech email I receive every morning includes two or three stories that dig into the religion hook of major events and the lives of interesting people.
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Battle at Baylor: Will the atmosphere change?
During the past few years, I have hesitated to write about the national coverage of Baylor University’s academic civil war — either in my Scripps Howard columns or on this blog.
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Same show, different planets
In an interview last year with Salon, Terry Gross of Fresh Air addressed the charge of some conservatives that National Public Radio works from a liberal bias:
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We'll always have Paris?
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Time to play "spot the code" in Bush text
It’s time to play “spot the evangelical code words,” the game in which the Washington press tries to figure out when President George W. Bush is sending mysterious secret messages to those religious “values voters” who want to turn American into a theocracy.
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Gerson's remarks posted
The Ethics & Public Policy Center has posted its transcript of “Religion, Rhetoric, and the Presidency,” the speech White House speechwriter gave to two dozen U.S. and international journalists on Dec. 6. The text covers his remarks and then the response by National Journal White House correspondent Carl Cannon.
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