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Apparently Dan Rather was on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show not too long ago where he scoffed at the idea that the media is biased in a liberal fashion. He said that criticizing the media for liberal bias is just “working the refs.” I’m going based on second-hand reports because I’m traveling right now and for some reason the wifi system I’m on won’t let me actually watch this video.
As much as we look at coverage of domestic policies and whether the religion angles in those stories were covered well, we rarely see much coverage that explores religion angles in foreign policy.
LâOsservatore Romano reports that it has added a women’s page to its Italian-language edition. The four-page insert will be called âWomen, Church, Worldâ and will be written âby and forâ Catholic women, and will appear on the last Thursday of the month, the semi-official Vatican newspaper reports.
The former newspaper copy editor in me has been watching the development of the whole “Polish death camp” debate this week, which led, of course, to a political resolution of this rather small-scale media storm.
I never get a chance to look at stories about libertarianism and religion because, frankly, there aren’t that many of them. But the Washington Post had a story that joined these two topics and it was actually really good. Good stories about libertarianism and religion are even rarer to find.
From time to time, your GetReligionistas have joined with the general public in moaning about the degree to which mainstream journalists are obsessed with matters of political “process” and that whole “inside baseball” school of news coverage in which reporters pounce on tiny changes in process or personnel as alleged evidence of earthquakes in national or world affairs.
Earlier this month, I complained about a one-sided Associated Press report on the culture wars and the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Some news organizations are working in their editorials and opinion pieces (if not elsewhere) — to downplay, denigrate or outright dismiss the religious liberty concerns some Americans have expressed recently. And yet, particularly when it comes to a new federal mandate requiring some religious organizations to violate their doctrines or face strict fines and penalties, people keep expressing these concerns.
So, let’s let the whole progressive nuns vs. the Vatican thread spin on a bit, since the regional stories continue to pop up in the mainstream press.
