If I had to teach a child the concept of natural law, I would tell him or her to play Dungeons & Dragons.
God, Aquinas, and the dungeon master
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What would Pat Robertson do?
You know, I laughed out loud when I popped open the first email asking me what I thought of this story. Then I did what any news junkie would do in this day and age. I slapped a silly headline on it and sent it to some of my friends.
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Not skeptical about skeptics' camp
I criticized an Associated Press story yesterday for failing Journalism 101. Another AP story, about nonreligious camp, does not suffer from this problem.
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What's the fuss with same-sex marriage?
Last week I criticized a Los Angeles Times story for spinning the results of a poll to make it seem like opposition to same-sex marriage wasn’t significant. Though supporters of traditional marriage had a 19-point margin of victory over those who want to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions, the Times referred to that margin as slim, narrow, “a bit” of a bare majority.
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Religion news unlike any other
Religion news should be treated generally like any other news found in a community’s newspaper. News about religious issues is not the place for preaching, lecturing, or giving advice. Most news stories avoid using the first person. That is standard news journalism.
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Jews burned books. Interested? Tough.
The Associated Press wrote an interesting man-bites-dog story about religious conflict in Israel. According to the wire service, Orthodox Jews burned hundreds of copies of the New Testament:
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Dear Lord, please hit that batter
It’s very rare that I pick up a newspaper and read a sentence that leaves me shaking my head and muttering, “What in the heckfire did that mean?”
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What is Morehouse College, today?
We’ve been jumping on the Los Angeles Times quite a bit in the past week or so, with no apology. Nevertheless, I decided to let another jab wait over the long Memorial Day weekend.
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Ouch! Those headlines!
Here is a fact about daily journalism that every reporter wants news readers to grasp: Reporters rarely, rarely write the headlines that appear above their stories.
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