We are going to play a little numbers game for a minute, so please hang in there with me. The following is totally fiction, so please do not get hung up on the details.
Episcopal numbers games in greater LA
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Seriously spiritually 'Lost'
I can’t express my love for Lost enough. For a while, I was almost convinced The Onion produced the clip “Final Season Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than” about me.
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Getting the cold shoulder
The Washington Post is known for puffy Style-section profiles of movers and shakers in the Washington area. A few years ago, we looked at the puffiest Washington Post Style profile I can recall. It was about Kate Michelman, the former head of NARAL Pro-Choice America. We learned from that piece that she organized sales to benefit Mexican farm workers as a teenager, makes food from scratch, reads a lot (“every word in every paragraph”), and loves to wash dishes. Here was a sample from that hagiography:
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Fundamentalist whack-a-mole
Long-time readers of GetReligion know that since the beginning of this blog we’ve been playing whack-a-mole with reporters who misuse the term “fundamentalist.”
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The Watchtower's market saturation
The New York Review of Magazines describes itself as “an unabashed celebration of magazines,” so it’s no wonder the annual magazine would eventually turn its attention to “The Most Widely Read Magazine in the World.”
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Beyond the L-word? Ask questions
As you would expect, the Baltimore Sun is in full celebration mode when it comes to the consecration of the Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool of Annapolis as a new assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. This makes sense for all kinds of reasons, in terms of the newspaper’s views of the changes that must be made to help build a better and more enlightened world.
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Making every word count
Here at GetReligion, we write about reporters and their journalism. But you wouldn’t have stories without story subjects. And I always find it interesting when subjects discuss what it was like to be written about in an article.
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Battle of (missing) ideas in Indonesia
If you are interested in the future of Islam, which means you are interested in the future of world affairs, then you are interested in Indonesia.
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Little bitty flock of 1.6 million: The sequel
The other day, I made a big deal (in a negative way) out of how a single sentence in a Florida newspaper story described Churches of Christ, the fellowship to which I belong. If you missed that post, please go back and read it. Otherwise, this sequel won’t make sense (maybe it still won’t, but familiarity with the previous discourse might help improve the odds).
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