For several years now (click here for an early post) I have been asking a rather basic journalistic question: “What is Newsweek?”
Newsweek covers "The War on Christians"?
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Frame game: the importance and composition of polling
Tmatt did a rather comprehensive look at how framing will play a big part in media coverage of the Obama Administration’s mandating of what religious institutions should and should not offer in their employee benefits.
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Americans really are ignorant boobs
Rick Santorum is not a Protestant. He has not called for public schools to teach creationism. Notwithstanding claims made by the Telegraph that the former Senator from Pennsylvania is an evangelical and a creationist — Mr. Santorum remains not guilty of these charges.
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A one-sided account of a general's withdrawal
Yesterday, a retired general was supposed to speak at a prayer breakfast but withdrew after backlash from various groups. This piece from the New York Times covering Lt. Gen William Boykin’s withdrawal has been sitting in my guilt file because of the complexities involved.
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Religious liberty loses appeal
The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times including a “side bar” by Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak headlined “âWe the Peopleâ Loses Appeal With People Around the World.”
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Frame game: Birth control vs. religious liberty, again
At this point, the media storm about Health and Human Services story is growing and becoming more complex.
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Blind spots breaking out all over
Last night, I pointed out the Washington Post media writer Erik Wemple’s rather odd attempt to defend mainstream coverage of the Planned Parenthood PR and fundraising campaign of the Komen foundation. One of the things he’d said was that Ross Douthat’s New York Times column critiquing bad media coverage was “bunk” because you could find good coverage, too. Specifically, he pointed out, this Dallas Morning News story (“which carefully laid out both sides of the dispute”). How carefully, you ask? This carefully. Here’s the lede:
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The narrow Prop 8 decision
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” â Mark Twain
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Ghost in the Brendan voyage
This lengthy Washington Post sports feature about Matt Rutherford’s amazing attempt to sail — solo, in a small boat — all the way around North and South America had me locked up the minute I read that he had named his boat the Saint Brendan.
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