I’ve heard that a comedian can make a whole career in Hollywood out of wiener jokes. I wonder if the same could be said for the media and Weiner jokes.
Paul Ryan and the atheist bogeyman
As the resident libertarian here at GetReligion, I was curious about the flurry of stories about how a progressive Christian group is fighting Ayn Rand. So even though it ran over a week ago, I’m finally getting to this Religion News Service piece on the matter.
Post stands firm on its St. Luke's facts
The calendar page at the website of the church formerly known as Mount Calvary Episcopal in Baltimore contains a number of items that should be of interest to reporters covering stories about believers who are now making their way into the Vatican’s newly created “personal ordinariate” for “Anglicans entering full communion with the Catholic Church.”
Pizza with the Dalai Lama
Every once in a while, we come across something that is just too funny to keep to ourselves. Today we are laughing about a TV news anchor’s joke with the Dalai Lama that just fell seriously flat.
Demonize the opposition, chapter 666
You know a story is going to be bad when the headline is “National Organization for Marriage crusading against gay nuptials in NY.” Crusading! Hide your kids! Hide your wife!
What makes someone a 'Catholic priest'?
Got PR? One-sided news over in op-ed (corrected)
Katherine Stewart is the author of an upcoming book with one of those calm, reasoned, fair-minded titles that have become so common in the American marketplace in the past few decades — âThe Good News Club: The Christian Rightâs Stealth Assault on Americaâs Children.â
Ready, OK? Cheerleading in Arizona
Just for the fun of it, pretend that you’re a line editor at a 100,000-circulation newspaper in the Southwest — say, the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.
Ghost in the Taylor guitar story
People who build high-end acoustic guitars (and people like me who just love acoustic guitars) walk around with a lot of very particular sounds in their heads.
