Galling MSM abortion extremism double standards
There are so many stories related to the media’s poor coverage of abortion that I couldn’t begin to catch up. I’ve wanted to write about what it means that the media always refer to abortion in...
View ArticleMedia embarrassingly ill-equipped to cover rape, theodicy
The whole point of this website, since day one, has been to help mainstream journalists “get religion.” So I guess I should not be utterly disgusted and disappointed by so many reporters’ coverage of...
View Article“Nobody cares” about Obama’s abortion beliefs? Really?
I was taping the Crossroads podcast earlier and host Todd Wilken asked me something about why reporters were mishandling the news that Senate candidate Richard Mourdock believes even a human life...
View ArticleIndia and rape: Spotting some tricky ghosts
In about 99 percent of the mainstream news reports you will ever read about India and religion, there will be a reference that reads something like the following, from a Washington Post story that I...
View ArticleRape and religion in Israel
Here’s a proposition for GetReligion readers: The quality of a news article should be measured not by how well it is written, but by how well it is read. The reporter’s task is to provide facts,...
View ArticleSteubenville: 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...
View ArticlePod people: media struggles mightily with abortion coverage
On this week’s Crossroads, host Todd Wilken and I discussed that embarrassing BuzzFeed confusion — or defiant ignorance, really — about basic and widespread traditional Christian teaching on evil. We...
View ArticleWPost hints at religious ghosts in India’s rape crisis
Several years ago, during a tour to promote The Media Project book called “Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion,” I took part in an excellent forum about religion and the news at a media...
View ArticleGod, sex, ‘military values’ and the U.S. Naval Academy
Most weekday mornings, as I make my short drive to the train station for my ride to Capitol Hill, I hear at least one plug on talk radio for the Navy Federal Credit Union. Part of the liturgy in these...
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