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If you dig around on the Washington Post site you can find the following weblog post that quotes a U.S. Senate tribute by Sen. Sam Brownback to the late Manute Bol of Sudan, who, at 7-foot-7, with a fingertip-to-fingertip wingspan of 8-feet-6, was one of the most unusual athletes to ever play in the National Basketball Association.
Breaking news coverage is very difficult. The moment when people most desire updates coincides with the moment when a news outlet knows the least on the given topic.
Last week we looked at a piece by Newsweek that suggested Sarah Palin was the new leader of the religious right. I suggested then that Newsweek should have at least mentioned one of Palin’s potential contenders: Mike Huckabee.
There are so many positive things that I want to say about the gripping Time news feature that ran under the following double-decker headline: “Mexico’s Meth Warriors: Fueled by Evangelical zeal and America’s appetite for meth, a provincial Mexican gang breaks into the big time.”
If you’re not following Cathy Lynn Grossman on Twitter or include Faith & Reason & USA Today‘s religion stories bookmarked/on your RSS feed, stop whatever you’re doing and right that wrong.
A month ago I wrote about “Religion NIMBYs” in Tennessee who didn’t want a mosque built in their neighborhood. Here we go again, only this time the Tennessean didn’t assign its veteran religion reporter Bob Smietana. And the finished product reflected that.
So there’s a new movie coming out about the legendary (and I do mean legendary) female Pope of the 9th Century — Joan. It’s the job of movie directors to use good stories rather than tell accurate accounts of history. But we should expect more accuracy in media coverage. Let’s see how it’s going.
What do you know? If you travel north of the border, you’ll find that Canadians who are interested in mainstream media coverage of religion news are talking about many of the same subjects as folks down here in the United States.
My minivan was running on empty Sunday morning, so I stopped at a 7-Eleven to buy gasoline on my way to church. Usually, I pay at the pump with my Visa check card, but this time I had cash, so I went inside to hand $40 to the clerk.
