Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill.
Womenpriests again: The people vs. newspaper scenario
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Mysterious deluge of unreported Catholics
I’m on a few of those neighborhood list-servs. One of them is for area parents. One of the members is a local reporter and she asks for interviews with folks for various stories she’s working on.
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M-O-D-E-S-T: A key word for Annette the Catholic
As you would expect in a world that remains obsessed with all things Baby Boomer, the death of the ultimate Mouseketeer — that would be the always lovely Annette Funicello — drew quite a bit of mainstream media attention.
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Abortion blindness in the New York Times
Three cheers for my Get Religion colleague Mollie Hemingway! She has done a fantastic job this week pointing out the professional failures of the national press coverage of the Kermit Gosnell trial in Philadelphia. The self-censorship of the New York Times on this issue is of Walter Duranty-like proportions.
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We need answers on the Kermit Gosnell news coverage
We’ve had a couple posts on the curious downplaying by the national media of the abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell’s mass murder trial going on right now in Philadelphia. We’ve noted, among other things, that USA Today is one of the few outlets to have mentioned the story more than once.
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Any reporters out there still studying Pope Francis?
This whole GetReligion operation, as regular readers know, exists to look at the good and the bad in the mainstream media’s attempts to cover religion news, events and trends.
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Should media cover -- or cover up -- abortion trial?
I would love to critique the coverage of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor whose mass murder trial is going on right now in Philadelphia.
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Another Catholic school shocks press with 'morality clause'
A reader sent in a story from Louisiana focusing on a Catholic-education topic that will — trust me — be in the news more and more in the years ahead.
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Washington Post tries to define 'liberal' in Maryland
There is much to applaud in today’s Washington Post story that ran under the headline, “Maryland’s leftward swing.”
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