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Osteen in context

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I’m down in Florida for the week to watch a friend of the family take the next space shuttle into orbit, which means two things. One, I get to read different papers. Two, I’ll be preparing to watch Atlantis lift off when Mitt Romney gives the speech heard ’round the world. I’m sure we’ll be looking at media coverage of one of those two events as we progress through the week.


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Spare the rod, spoil the reporter

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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune reporter Rochelle Olson wrote a story that’s not really about religion. It’s about corporal punishment — whether and when the government can involve itself in private family disciplinary methods. It’s a fascinating topic, although it’s one mostly outside the scope of this blog. But the lede was framed in an interesting manner:


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Reading GOP tea leaves -- again

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People read different newspapers for different reasons and, here in Beltway land, one of the main reasons people read The Washington Times is to be able to listen to some of the inside conversations in the conservative establishment — including its discontents. It’s kind of like centrist, churchgoing Democrats trying to read between the lines in E. J. Dionne Jr. columns in The Washington Post.


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