Ben Nelson is facing some bad news back home in Nebraska after he switched his vote to support the Senate’s health care bill. A Rasmussen survey shows 55 percent of Nebraska voters now hold an unfavorable view of Nelson, who is up for re-election in 2012, while 40 percent view him favorably. So Nelson took to the airwaves during the University of Nebraska’s Holiday Bowl on Wednesday to defend his position, but some reporters seem to forget what started it all: abortion.
The 'why' of terrorism
Last week I read a Washington Post article about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with attempting to bomb a flight to Detroit. In the same way that some media coverage of Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan explored his mental state, this Post article took the clinical approach with Abdulmutallab. Like Hasan, he was lonely and wanted to find a wife.
Pious devotion or deadly fanaticism?
Remember Mollie’s post a few weeks ago taking issue with a quote in the NYT regarding Muslim terrorists and the price of beer? Well here we go again. The subject in this Washington Post article isn’t five northern Virginia men but Nidal Hasan of Fort Hood infamy.
Hey pope, go hide somewhere
For years, our missing co-founder Douglas LeBlanc was the GetReligionista who was officially in charge of posting “hathos” alerts linked to mainstream media coverage of religion news. He’s still out there, lurking, and he sent us an alert this morning for the first hathos alert of 2010 and it is a goodie.
What Catholic media bias?
GetReligion readers likely are familiar with John Allen, the National Catholic Reporter‘s ace Vatican reporter. His latest column analyzes the biggest Vatican stories of the last 10 years. An aside: is anyone else annoyed at all of these “best of decade” lists coming a year prior to the end of the actual decade?
Obama's year: Cairo or Notre Dame?
I rarely disagree with the results of the Religion Newswriters Association poll that selects the year’s Top 10 stories on the religion-news beat.
Putting the ho, ho, ho in holidays
If, like me, you’re long since tired of reading stories about Tiger Woods’ sordid personal life, please hang with me for one more.
Bishops v. hospitals, round 2
Over the weekend, I discussed a New York Times story about a possible rift between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Health Association (CHA) — which represents the many Catholic hospitals in the country — over health care reform legislation. The Times reported the following: “In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation’s Catholic hospitals have signaled that they back the Senate’s compromise on the issue, raising hopes of breaking an impasse in Congress and stirring controversy within the church.”
God and culture: 2009 remix
I’ve only been a card-carrying Get Religion-er since August, and in that brief time I’ve been repeatedly drawn to articles that cover the intersection of faith and culture.
