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Greek scandal explodes

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North American media are starting to tune into the scandal — scandals, actually — rocking the Greek Orthodox Church back in the motherland. Here is a CBC report. Right now, the best story to read on this is by Brian Murphy of the Associated Press. Watch for this: “On Saturday, the 102-member Holy Synod is expected to approve a series of measures proposed by the archbishop, including greater involvement of civil overseers in the church’s financial dealings and “ethical misconduct.” Seminary students may also lose their exemption from military service — an obligation for nearly every Greek man.”


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NASCAR, Cabela's -- and Catholicism?

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The 80th anniversary issue of The New Yorker includes a report by Nicholas Lemann on how some editors of the nation’s most prestigious daily newspapers are feeling beleaguered by criticisms by both liberals and conservatives — but especially by conservatives. The essay opens with Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, talking at length about how President Bush’s adviser Karl Rove “pounded on us for two cocktails’ worth of conversation.” (Keller had made the mistake of asking Rove what he thought of the Times‘ political coverage.)


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Major Lott's Law violation?

I wish John Tierney and Jacques Steinberg had supplied more info in their recent New York Times article on PBS. The piece begins with a pretty good lede — “It was no accident that PBS found itself turning to Elmo, the popular Sesame Street character, to lobby on Capitol Hill this week. There were not many options” — but then drops it without explanation. Google and Nexis were of little help.


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Finding typos: Best correction of the year (so far)?

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One of my all-time favorite editors, the late Ralph Looney of the Rocky Mountain News, used to say that he was never amazed when errors made it into the newspaper. He was amazed that the typical daily newspaper contains as few errors as it does.


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