A reader sent GetReligion a link to a Washington Post story with this headline:
Debunking 'the Amish Bernie Madoff' theme
You probably won’t find many themes of forgiveness in your average ponzi scheme story. But when you’re writing about âthe Amish Bernie Madoff,â it’s likely too difficult to ignore them.
Another Episcopal cathedral shoe drops
It is the year 2012, do you know where your local Episcopal cathedral is? Are you sure that there still is one?
AP discovers a new faith -- "Southern Baptism"
On one level, the error that I am about to spotlight is so silly that it could just be a typo or a stupid (click here for classics) error — like someone calling Sen. Rick Santorum an evangelicalist or reporting that some liturgical committee has decided to modernize the Episcopalian prayerbook, again.
Someone's confused about Santorum
An editor, whose religion I don’t know, sent this Associated Press story along with the note, “Maybe I’m too sensitive to these things, but this strikes me as kind of a vile headline if you think about it–not that some people mistake him for a Protestant, but the implication is that they wouldn’t support him if they knew he was Catholic.”
Pod people: Girl Scouts and gossip
Just so that title doesn’t confuse anyone, let me make clear that we’re talking about two different stories.
Religion reporters: The 0.7 percent
Last year, we were nearly giddy over a report that showed religion news had doubled … to 2 percent of overall media coverage. Hey, we’ll take it. In 2011, sadly, we did not see the same level of religion coverage in the press.
Media shirk debate on religious liberty
No. 7,000: Please define "evangelical" -- again
So, this post represents the 7,000th GetReligion offering that is still stashed on our server. That’s a landmark, of some sort or another, especially since this comes so soon after our 8th birthday party the other day.
