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Explaining the slight Sikh shooting coverage

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When a Neo-Nazi gunman killed and wounded worshipers at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, we looked at a few problems with the coverage. Some readers suggested additional problems. See here and here, for instance. I actually thought much of the coverage was good. This New York Times story (“For Victim in Sikh Temple Shooting, a Life of Separation“) was a keeper and the general coverage at CNN and its Belief Blog have been extensive and thoughtful.


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A gunman's shout: 'I am opposed to social conservatism!'

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Long ago, before the cooling of the earth’s crust, I took my first news copy-editing class as a young journalism student at Baylor University. Anyone who has worked as a copy editor know that one of the first things you learn is how to keep bad stuff out of print.


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The inaccurate ways we portray nuns

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One of the most powerful ways we receive and process information is visually. And we don’t get too much of a chance to discuss how coverage of religion news is shaped by visual images that accompany copy. But someone sent me a link to a story and told me I had to check out the picture that accompanied it. It got me thinking.


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Reporter learns difficult lesson about Facebook rants

Earlier this month we looked at an incident involving a reporter covering the Chick-Fil-A protest for his paper in Florida. Reporter Mark Krzos had a public Facebook profile. On it, he shared his liberal views, affinity for the Democratic Party and its candidates, and his strong dislike of Chick-Fil-A. He appeared to go so far as to support blocking Chick-Fil-A outlets from being permitted to exist in Boston, for instance.


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Tearing down an Arabic Sign, again, for no reason

I know that I have mentioned, in the past, that my family was part of a predominately Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian parish in South Florida during the dark weeks right after 9/11. I remember, for example, that one young Orthodox boy was attacked in a public-school playground because he was an Arab — with his gold baptismal cross hanging around his neck.


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