Absent a priestly predator is paedophilia a religion news story?
Paedophilia and the left redux
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Ready! Set! Be bored by Illinois' same-sex marriage debate!
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s “Religion News on the Web” page is one of the places I go to peruse religion news.
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Hey Reuters: Historic details really matter in Istanbul
Istanbul is the kind of place in which the past often seems to be just as real, or even more real, than the present.
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Well here's a new journalism spin on female ordination
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A U.S. Army (trend) of one (or maybe two)
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The New York Times finally makes some changes on the fetus front
Oh to have been a fly on the fall during any editing discussions at The New York Times national desk during the time between the newspaper of record’s early report on the verdict in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell case and the final version that is currently online.
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Who's worthy of more coverage: Todd Akin or Kermit Gosnell?
When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a comment about women being raped last year, the New York Times responded with, according to a search engine count, about 250 stories in under three months. A sample of the 19 (!) headlines from just the first two days*:
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Should journalists ask pro-choice activists some Kermit Gosnell questions?
The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a Mother’s Day interview with, who else, the head of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood does a few things that people either love or hate, but none so much as aborting more than 300,000 unborn children each year.
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Death penalty in Cleveland horrors? Wait, who died?
Once again, let’s turn to the dictionary and that tricky word “fetus,” which has through the decades been at the heart of so many bitter newsroom arguments about abortion, morality, religion, science and law.
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