Time for a trip into the tmatt folder of guilt about a media-criticism issue that, let’s face it, could be reviewed year after year, world without end. Amen.
All protests not equal, time after Times
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A non-prophet organization?
I am a huge fan of Reuters religion coverage. I find their articles frequently informative, detailed, nuanced and covering stories that other outlets miss. I also enjoy their “Faithworld” blog. Last month, the blog highlighted the concern of a reader (and yes, I stole the headline from them):
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God so loved the Super Bowl ...
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Mike Tomlin, minus some heart and soul
In the two weeks leading to the Super Bowl, armies of world-weary journalists pour out oceans of ink in utterly predictable stories about the two teams that are playing in The Big Game.
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Pod people: Good news or bad for Copts?
For more than a week now, the mainstream press has been wrestling with the events in Egypt. It’s safe to say that this is the biggest news story, period, on planet Earth right now. I mean, other than Super Bowl XLV.
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Iowa's tea party found religion
Before the 2008 election, there was a lot of ink spilled on the Democratic outreach to religious voters, but this time, the cycle seems more focused on the tea party. Part of the shift is probably due to the state of the economy and current horse race coverage on potential Republican candidates, but maybe the media cycle just needs to jump to the next exciting group to fuel election content.
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How not to write a paragraph about Egypt
The drama in Egypt is rolling on and on, which means that journalists in local newsrooms across America are doing that thing that we do — we search for local angles on the stories.
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What about Homeboy's Catholic roots?
Homeboy Industries is a pretty cool gang intervention organization here in Los Angeles. It’s sort of like a guns for jobs program, and it’s been an anti-gang leader in Southern California. The nonprofit’s founder and leader, Father Greg Boyle, is a Jesuit priest who started the Jobs For a Future program while still serving as the pastor of the Dolores Mission parish in Boyle Heights.
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iPad publication meets the Amish
The journalism world is abuzz over the launch of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily, the first publication “built from scratch” for the iPad. The Poynter Institute’s Damon Kiesow suggests that it’s “too early to pass any judgment on the content.”
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