That New York Times doozie-of-a-correction notwithstanding, many American journalists understand exactly what Easter means for Christians.
All hope is not lost: Easter in America's newspapers
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Steubenville: Ties between rape and 'fundamentalist' teens?
Your GetReligionistas don’t spend much time digging around in the growing world of first-person, advocacy journalism. We realize that opinion is cheap and reporting new information is expensive and that managers of many websites are going to do what they are going to do, which is print more and more opinion pieces about big news events. This is the new reality, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it.
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God and Allah at an Easter service shooting
A church in Ashtabula, Ohio, was the scene of a shooting on Easter Sunday. Just as services had ended, a man arrived and shot his father in the head, killing him. A reporter sent us a link to an earlier version of an Associated Press story that ran in the Houston Chronicle with a headline that read:
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Christians wary on Easter (sort of) in Syria
Every religion writer has experienced those awkward moments each year when an editor walks over to your desk and says, “Hey, it’s almost Easter (or Passover, of Christmas, or Ramadan, or …) and we have to have some Easter stories. What do you have going on that we can call an Easter story?”
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This New York Times Easter story correction is a doozie
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A Dan Brown Good Friday from the BBC
What a difference a decade makes. In 2002 the BBC broadcast a documentary on the Virgin Mary characterizing her “as a poor and downtrodden girl, who might have conceived Jesus as a result of being raped.” This Life of Brian view of the birth of Jesus prompted outrage -â letters, editorials, statements from church leaders leaders condemning the broadcast.
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Render unto Google the things which are Google's ...
First of all, let me state right up front that it is hard to do a news critique of a graphic device. I concede that point.
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Another hack piece by CNN ... maybe (Updated)
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So what was Pope Francis up to on Holy Thursday?
So, this pope vs. pope theme has been building, in mainstream coverage, during the amazing early days of Pope Francis. Have you noticed? One of the world’s top reporters on all things Catholic has noticed, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
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