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Yesterday we looked at the bizarrely-limited-but-not-otherwise-bad coverage of the religion angles in recent debates over whether to change marriage law. I suggested in the comments to that post that some reporters were neither curious nor terribly thoughtful in how they approached the topic.
The following post is not really about Franklin Graham and his upcoming festival targeting Latinos in the greater Los Angeles area.
Rolling Stone‘s piece on “Michele Bachmann’s Holy War” is “The Hit Piece That Hit Itself,” as John Hudson says, a profile that raises ethical questions about drawing heavily from previous reporting and what passes for journalism, even for magazines that allow more directed reporting.
On Friday night, the New York legislature voted to give same-sex couples the right to marry. This will certainly produce interesting journalism in the days to come, but let’s look at some of the stories that had religion angles.
However, it is silly for a reason. There is an interesting hole in the following story — maybe. I mean, there may be a journalistic hole in the story. Then again, there may be a somewhat obvious religion hole in the event or the trend that the story is about. I do not know.
Trust me when I say this: Your GetReligionistas know that there is no way that we can see even a quarter of the mainstream news coverage that we need to see. That’s why it is so, so important that readers help us and, through emails or comments, point us toward additional information, URLS and stories that we need to know about.
A reader alerted us to a Wisconsin newspaper’s coverage of the church trial of a United Methodist minister who performed a same-sex wedding ceremony.
