To protect and serve God

Reporters spent Monday covering much-needed ground in the tragic killings at the Youth With a Mission campus and New Life Church in Colorado. It turns out that there are even more religious angles. I’ve been really impressed with all of the Colorado papers and television stations, and there’s way too much to highlight here, but let’s look at the two newest angles. The first is information on what may have motivated the gunman, Matthew Murray, as described by the local ABC affiliate:


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About the Post's bizarre Obama story

I have mixed feelings about ombudsmen, but the latest effort by The Washington Post‘s Deborah Howell makes me think again about their usefulness. Howell dealt with the story the Post did a couple of weeks ago about the baseless rumors surrounding the Barack Obama presidential campaign that he is a closet Muslim. Even Post opinion cartoonist Tom Toles had a useful opinion on the piece.


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Making sense of senseless shootings

A missionary center and a church were the scenes of fatal shootings yesterday in my native state of Colorado. It’s always hard to write good copy following chaotic events, and I noticed there were some inconsistencies in coverage such as fluctuating totals for those wounded and killed. This post will make a few random observations about the coverage.


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Betrayed with a translation

Readers of GetReligion are familiar with that mainstream media holiday tradition of releasing news stories that are supposed to shake the foundations of Christianity. Easters over the last few years have featured stories that Jesus walked on an ice floe (not water), that he wasn’t crucified in the manner in which people think, that Jesus’ father was a Roman soldier named Pantera, not Joseph, and that Jesus didn’t die on the cross so much as pass out after being doped up.


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