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Hunting Osama for the Lord?

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Did you read about the American who was caught in Pakistan attempting to hunt down Osama bin Laden? As soon as I heard the man was from my home state of Colorado, I became more interested in the details. Dr. Scott Faulkner spoke in defense of his brother, the 52-year-old Gary Brooks Faulkner, to Denver NBC affiliate 9News:


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Religion reporting as public therapy?

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Once again, we need to flash back in time to look at that amazing and increasingly relevant memo that New York Times editor Bill Keller wrote to his staff in response to an in-house study of his news operation. You may recall that the study was called “Preserving our Readers’ Trust (pdf)“.


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Personalizing the sex scandal

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The Pew Research Center examined the recent coverage of the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. They analyzed U.S. newspapers, websites, network television programs, cable television programs and other media and found that it was the most intense coverage the church had received since 2002, when coverage of the American scandal flared up.


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Scientologists urged to end pregnancies?

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Talk about explosive allegations: In a mammoth two-day investigative series totaling more than 10,000 words, the St. Petersburg Times reports that the Church of Scientology repeatedly pushed members of its religious order, the Sea Organization, to have abortions “for the greatest good.”


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