Even as we head into beautiful fall color changes, we’re still talking about Chick-fil-A apparently.
Remember Chick-fil-A? Still making news!
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Not all Tennesseans are Islamophobes!?
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LATimes on Chick-fil-A: Where's the journalism?
A long, long, time ago — almost a decade, in fact — there was a Los Angeles Times editor who wrote a letter to his section editors in which he defended solid, old-fashioned American journalism. You know, the kind that strives to accurately quote informed voices on both sides of controversial issues, perhaps even in a way that promotes informed, balanced, constructive debate and civic life.
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'Wife of Jesus' reality checks, doubts and debunkings
We’ve all had our fun with the bride of Christ stories. While the mainstream media is not going to win any awards for doing a good job covering this story, I did want to highlight a few stories that stood out for not being ridiculous. A reader suggested this Huffington Post article be highlighted, commenting:
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Oh, for a follow-up question to Justice Thomas
Anyone who has ever tried to do media criticism knows that it is so, so easy to complain about the work of others, especially when you do not know all of the factors that led to a particular story being reported, written and edited in a particular way.
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Charlie Hebdo's Muhammad cartoon crassness
Get ready GetReligion readers for the next twist in the Muslim outrage story. Today’s issue of Charlie Hebdo – a lowbrow political humor magazine akin to Private Eye â tops the “Innocence of Muslims” film in crassness and bad taste.
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Christmas comes early with 'Jesus' wife' story
Readers of GetReligion are familiar with that mainstream media holiday tradition of releasing news stories that are supposed to shake the foundations of Christianity. Easters over the last few years have explained to all those gullible believers that Jesus walked on an ice floe (not water), that he wasn’t crucified in the manner in which people think, that Jesus’ father was — of course — a Roman soldier named Pantera and that Jesus didn’t die on the cross so much as pass out after being doped up.
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Exorcism for fun and profit
The title of this story from the Agence France Presse (AFP), “Exorcism boom in Poland sees magazine launch” caught my eye, as a good headline should, and set my click finger twitching.
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Ghosts in pews of a great old Brooklyn church
Like many other Baby Boomer believers who grew up in the era of ugly-as-sin church architecture, I am a total sucker for stately, soaring old churches.
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