We’ve got a Got News? feature here at GetReligion that highlights a well-documented story that has somehow been missed the MSM. Maybe it’s time to add a Not News feature.
LA Times honors universalism
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Got news? Faith, funds, hard choices
I continue to be amazed at the degree to which the debates about health-care reform keep cycling back to issues of money and, let’s face it, religion.
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The beauty of the follow-up
One of my favorite types of stories is the follow-up. Journalists love to pile on when a story is fresh and hot and breaking. But rarely, if ever, do they check back in to see what’s happened after the storm dies down. There are obvious reasons for this but it’s so nice when a journalist does take the work to follow-up on an old story and, further, when it pays off.
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Iraq, vague laws and minorities
That tmatt file of GetReligion guilt is getting pretty deep, in part because of two weeks of dizzying travel — a combination of vacation, work and a funeral for a loved one.
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Red hot Catholic drugs
Typically when a news story about drugs begins with a priest, the focus is going be on how a community deals with the devastation those drugs have caused. And this story from Tuesday’s Washington Post is no different — except when it comes to scale. Here we aren’t talking about a life lost and a city under siege, but about a whole country under the influence.
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Faith findings 101
Two studies about the influence of higher education on faith have been released in the past month. One, presented by two professors at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, looked at attitudes among college-educated evangelicals about gay people and atheists. They argue that the data show that education is linked to higher “tolerance” for both groups.
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Digging into the "morals clause"
Some sex scandals are sad but exciting and some are just unseemly. This Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino one is a doozie. The married father of five had unprotected sex six years ago with a woman he had just met earlier in the evening and when she claimed to have gotten pregnant from the encounter he gave her $3,000. He says the money was for insurance. She says it was for an abortion. And then years later he went to the FBI after, he says, her extortion attempts got out of hand.
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What would Eunice Kennedy Shriver do?
About a year ago, a coalition of pro-life groups began a global effort to lower the percentage of unborn children who are aborted because they have been diagnosed as having Down syndrome. That statistic is believed to be about 90 percent, in large part because of parental fear the burden of raising a flawed or imperfect child.
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Two passengers and a baby
At the beginning of the month we looked at the various and sundry ways the mainstream media reported on the stabbing of an 8-months-pregnant woman and the kidnapping of her baby. Some people called the child, who was taken from the mother’s womb, a “fetus” while others called it a “baby.”
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