Did someone up there fail to get the memo that the National Enquirer isn’t exactly the most trusted outlet on earth?
Faith-based reporting
Some reporters just react to events and press releases. Others do a good job of keeping the big picture in mind.
Faith in Team Journolist, again
When cultural and religious conservatives talk about the whole Journolist media mini-storm, here is the kind of quotation from The Daily Caller coverage that has them hot and bothered. This particular burst of rhetoric comes from the DC story about members of the Journolist — or JournoList — sharing their feelings about the conservative feminist that they already loved to hate, only moments after she entered national politics — Sarah Palin.
The magic of three
One is ordinary. Two is coincidence. But three is a growing trend — be it three teenagers with nose rings, three soccer moms supporting the same political candidate or three pastors tweeting from the pulpit.
A good deal for $107,500?
There’s this New York Times feature called “Room for Debate.” The name alone, and its presence on the opinion pages, led me to believe that maybe there would be, I don’t know, a debate between the featured participants. The topic yesterday was “same-sex families,” the hook a new movie about a lesbian couple and their children. But there was no debate that I saw. Featured opinions ranged from those of Dan Savage to those of an Evergreen College professor. It was just a given that society should have no qualms about same-sex parenting. The end. The ruling class marches on.
Got news? Supreme prayer files
It’s difficult to understand why only FOX News Radio and World Net Daily thought this was news. I gave it a few days to incubate. To no avail.
Homey church
Believe it or not, not all evangelicals attend a megachurch. In fact, if you check out this top graph from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, you’ll see that 59 percent of churches nationwide have an attendance of seven to 99 people.
Murdoch meets Oprah, kills Beliefnet?
Today is a big day in the ongoing story about the status of Beliefnet.com and what that says about the world of mainstream religion news and commentary.
A cut and paste fail
Whenever I come across a particularly puffy story, I might say it reads like a press release. But a reader sent in a story that really was just a slightly modified press release.
