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Several days of email have finally drawn the first hint of a response to GetReligion’s request for a correction on that Washington Post story about missionaries, modern Istanbul and the sacking of the city in 1204.
I have been sending messages to The Washington Post each day, seeking a correction to that April 9 news feature about Islamists killing priests and missionaries in the city that once was known as Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine world.
The good news is that The Boston Globe corrected its mistake when it said that Jesus Christ was born in Nazareth. It took a few days, but the article has been updated and a correction posted at the end. But I doubt we’ll see CNN.com posting a retraction anytime soon.
I know Harper’s is on a mission to destroy Christianity or something, but remember what a great and interesting magazine it used to be, before it began its bizarre jihad?
Here is a quick dose of click-click-click apologetics in the age of the blogosphere, care of young master Jeremy Lott (a former Libertarian Catholic member of the GetReligion non-Borg).
CNN.com, one of the most heavily visited news sites on the Internet, posted these headlines this morning in an attempt to cover the rapidly developing cycle of violence in the Middle East:
I know that I could write this exact same post almost every day. I’m getting tired of writing it and, based on the lack of reader comments, you are getting tired of reading it.
I realize that this “Modern Love” essay in The New York Times is not a news story and we try to stick to the news here at GetReligion.
