There was one part of a Rasmussen poll about President Barack Obama’s decision to expand stem cell research that destroys embryos that I found particularly interesting:
Because science is important
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"Enough already"
Mary Jordan of the Washington Post Foreign Service reports in today’s Post that Pope Benedict XVI wrote an “unusual letter” to “quiet” protests after his “embrace” of excommunicated bishop and conspiracy theorist Richard Williamson.
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Oh taste and see ...
It’s would be very hard to write a feature-length obituary for an internationally known Roman Catholic priest while avoiding religious images and content.
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Finding God at the Natural History Museum
I am of the opinion that what drives some media narratives is less overt bias than a love for drama that pits one protagonist against another in competition for the lowest common denominator. But most people don’t live their daily lives on protest lines, or suing one another, or testifying before Congress.
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Demons in an East Texas home
You see, The Dallas Morning News has just finished taking a giant leap back into journalism history in a hellish three-part series built on the kind of serial, storytelling journalism that used to be common in American journalism. I think this is a good thing, when the material fits.
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Saint Paul's business ventures
“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. preached at Washington National Cathedral in March 1968. Robert Wright agrees, sort of, writing in the April Atlantic that “whether or not history has a purpose, its moral direction is hard to deny.” Wright’s essay is an 8,000-word argument that the three great monotheistic faiths may help create a more beneficent world through globalization.
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Faith ghosts in the global recession
The world’s economic troubles have many journalists writing articles about how the global society is changing as a consequence of the recession. For example, the Atlantic had this cover story on how communities like New York City will benefit from the financial crash (not exactly original or surprising considering the author). The Economist writes about how we may see a return “of economic nationalism.”
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Stem cell perspective . . . finally
Since we’ve been looking at so many bad examples of journalism about embryonic stem cell research, it might be worth looking at one paper that has been doing a bit better.
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The groan is almost audible
Time had one of the more embarrassing stories on President Barack Obama’s decision to use taxpayer dollars to fund stem cell research that destroys embryos. Alice Park’s gushy mash note to Obama and his decision is just not up to snuff. I mean, with lines such as “The sigh of relief in labs across the country was almost audible,” you should know you’re not dealing with journalism:
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