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Sunday is the much-overlooked Christian feast of Pentecost and we live in an era in which the global rise of Pentecostalism is simply — this cannot be debated — one of the most important religion stories of our time. Ask the experts at the Pew Forum on the Religion & Public Life.
The New York Times media reporter David Carr had a fun piece this week about how headlines have changed in the internet age.
The passing of Moishe Rosen wasn’t earth-shattering, but this was certainly news worthy of coverage on more obit pages than that of The Washington Post.
May 20 is “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.” We looked at coverage of this event a month ago. It was the brainchild of an illustrator upset at Comedy Central’s censorship of the South Park show. South Park, which has depicted the Prophet Muhammad in the past to no criticism, was pretending to depict Muhammad again. Comedy Central fearful of Muslim violence, blocked the pretend depictions and censored previous shows.
Several months ago, I had a chance to grab a bite to eat at Union Station with a long-time GetReligion reader named Eric Marrapodi, who just happens to be a producer at the CNN bureau here inside the Beltway.
More than three months ago, 10 Baptist mission workers from Idaho made major headlines when they tried to take 33 children from earthquake-devastated Haiti.
Recently I asked a woman from Nigeria what she thought of the media’s coverage of her country. She said what frustrated her most was when reporters gave sweeping statements or connected African countries as though it were one uniform nation. I thought of our conversation when I read a recent New York Times piece on Kenya’s culture wars. Stay with me as we read these first few paragraphs.
Earlier this week we saw two sad stories involving political figures. It turned out that the Democratic nominee to be the next Connecticut Senator, Richard Blumenthal, had lied (or “misplaced” his words, as he put it) about whether he’d served in Vietnam. And a Republican Congressman from Indiana, Rep. Mark Souder, resigned upon revelation of an affair he’d had with a staffer.
