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Today brings a fascinating contrast in two news reports from a meeting of the World Council of Churches. Brian Murphy, religion writer for The Associated Press, is virtually alone in covering the story, so his byline appears in all the major dailies.
This is the rare week when I was writing a post for GetReligion and then realized that it was turning into my next Scripps Howard News Service column. As you know, I hardly ever post my column here. But here it is, only with the URLS that show what I was trying to do for the blog.
Barbara Nicolosi is one of those people who cannot escape the basic journalistic description of who she is. She is your basic ex-nun turned Hollywood screenwriter. She also cranks out a wonderful blog called Church of the Masses. She has, in the recent past, ended up on the other side of a reporter’s notebook in interviews with Daily Variety and The New York Times. She shares her impressions of these interviews in her typically candid fashion. Here is a sample of the give and take:
Mark Brumley, CEO of Ignatius Press, has weighed in on the Thomas Reese controversy. America magazine, he writes,
A GetReligion reader known as ceemac recently raised a good question about my use of the phrase sneer quote, and asked that I define the term.
This is a note from a reader, addressing my take on the one-sided Los Angeles Times series on religious tensions at the Air Force Academy. This is an important issue to this blog, so let’s dig into it a bit.
Please pardon this shameless plug for the official grandmother of this blog, Frederica Mathewes-Green of Beliefnet, NPR and lots of other places. The Dallas Morning News just ran a very interesting Q&A with her — gentle and blunt at the same time — linked to the content of her recent lectures in an Episcopal church in Dallas. The title of the lectures was a flag-waver if I have seen one: “Sex and the City: Men, Women and the Future of Civilization.”
World editor Marvin Olasky, in one of his more pointed criticisms of the notion of journalistic objectivity, once wrote that journalists feel no need to quote pro-cancer sources when writing about that dread disease. Well, there’s no shortage of pro-sharia sources in The Washington Post‘s heartbreaking account of a married woman in Afghanistan who was killed — whether by a stoning or a beating — after she admitted to committing adultery with an unmarried man.
