When it comes to The New York Times, I can be as hypercritical as the next member of a traditional religious flock.
Unanswered questions in Indonesia
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The pain of "lead time" (revisited)
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A mission for religion reporters
I have a mission for religion reporters, reporters based in the Middle East and reporters who write stories that involve Islam: Start covering the differences in radical Islam.
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Can't get enough ink on the pope?
Friends and neighbors, there isn’t a whole lot new going on with the pope story. But there sure is a whole lot of the same old same old going on. How in the world can a sane person follow it all?
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Toppling a three-legged stool
I think it’s time to say this again: We have entered the age in which many reporters and their sources are going to have to record interviews that are linked to complicated and/or controversial stories.
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Romney vs. McCain on torture
The latest scuttlebutt on the 2008 presidential hopes of Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has him cozying up to President Bush on the torture and interrogation of terrorists. And it’s all in an attempt to differentiate himself from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has been fighting Bush tooth and nail on the issue.
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Oh, the weekly pain of "lead time"
I shipped my weekly “On Religion” column into the Scripps Howard New Service copy desk at about 7 a.m. today. Then I went about my business and headed into work a bit later than normal.
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News at The Christian Slate Newsweek Salon Century
As we recently demonstrated, your friends here at GetReligion admire the work of the young Jon Meacham at Newsweek. At least, we admire his skills as an essay writer whose editorial point of view would be right at home at Episcopal News Service.
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Failing to explain traditions
Labels for premarital rituals are oddly controversial. Whether you call it dating, courtship, hooking up or just hanging out, these labels carry with them all sorts of baggage.
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