Take the brouhaha that has brewed over comments ESPN NBA reporter Chris Broussard made concerning basketball player Jason Collins publicly coming out as gay.
The Broussard brouhaha and why context matters
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Breaking the silence on abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell
Sometimes other people do such fine GetReligion-esque media criticism that we just like to point at it and then walk away.
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From Reuters: Another by-the-book Womenpriests story
At this point, it seems that mainstream journalists have decided that the Womenpriests movement deserves a slow-rolling wave of coverage in which (a) it will clear that the women are operating outside the official borders of the Roman Catholic Church, but (b) the viewpoints of movement leaders will be quoted as gospel truth when it comes time to discuss why the nasty male church leaders believe what they believe.
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Does journalism matter to the public these days?
Does journalism matter? Not as much as it once did â if audience numbers or circulation rates are any guide.
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Secular-sacred union between Washington state hospitals
Suffice it to say that your GetReligionistas frequently receive emails that sound something like this:
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Revelations, Books of Psalms and other scriptures
Last week we noticed some embarrassing corrections related to how newspapers described the Epistle to the Ephesians. In the comments, Godbeat veteran Ann Rodgers wrote:
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A 'Duck Dynasty' profile that actually gets religion
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Baltimore Sun drops ball in profile of a preacher's son
The following has become a GetReligion mantra, when it comes to mainstream media coverage of sports and religion. If journalists are going to play the God card, especially in the ledes of major stories, it really helps if they are willing to devote some part of these stories to detailing the role that faith plays in the lives of the athletes who are being profiled.
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Upwardly mobile Hispanic evangelical converts?
Earlier this month, Time magazine published a 3,500-word cover story on what it dubbed “The Latino Reformation.” But the full text of the article is available online only to subscribers.
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