A reading, according to the Stylebook of the Associated Press.
God's role in Mark Sanford's redemption story
God â and South Carolina voters â decided Tuesday to give disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford a second chance.
Media continues to 'Gosnell' lots of abortion coverage. Why?
This blog played a bit of a role in highlighting Gosnelling, the media practice of ignoring or downplaying politically inconvenient abortion news (see, for example, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). It wasn’t great prior to that incident, but the mainstream media has an even worse credibility problem when it comes to reporting on abortion news. So I’d hoped we’d see some efforts to improve it.
Hey! So who is calling the new pope 'unorthodox'?
So, a faithful GetReligion reader was working his way through a story printed by The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., when a most unorthodox turn of phrase reared up and slapped him in his Catholic face.
So, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?
A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their name to better reflect the national and international nature of the denomination. I thought at the time that it might be helpful to change the name to the “The Episcopal Church” so that the national news media would finally acknowledge the massive SBCâs existence.
Back to the Bible, with hot shot Stephen Curry
Hello all of you GetReligion readers who are totally into sports! I am sure, at this time of year, you are really getting into the NBA playoffs.
Buddhism and horse-race politics
Campaign journalism is a favorite of reporters and readers alike. I am not a fan, finding the horse-race coverage to be frustrating. But with just one campaign of national interest right now, it’s bearable.
Problems with today's press? Religion is No. 1
Pennsylvania reporter shows how to correct an error
Last week, a sad news story out of Pennsylvania made the rounds. Originally, it had a bad headline and lede:
