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When I was on the religion beat, one of the questions that leaders in a wide variety of religious groups used to ask me went something like this: “Why do the (insert colorful word here) Episcopalians get so much coverage in the mainstream media?”
A long, long time ago, I remember a comment that a city-desk editor made when reporters started using the really early laptop computers (photo) to cover live news events. Everyone was excited because this was going to streamline the shipping of stories back to the newsroom, making it possible for reporters to write closer to deadline on breaking stories.
OK, OK, OK, I admit that some reporter had to write this story, no matter how much I wish it would go away:
There is an old media theory saying that effective advertisements are like small sermons. They show people struggling with a problem and then they claim to show a solution to that problem.
Awesome. It’s kind of fun to find out that the culture warriors over at Slate have created a new feature that would be perfectly at home here at GetReligion.
Almost a year ago, M.Z. Hemingway had an interesting post about the controversial Body Worlds exhibits. You may remember they feature artworks by Dr. Gunther von Hagens that consist of dead, flayed, dissected human beings preserved in plastic.
Dear Lord, Creator of heaven and earth, please speak to the Rev. Pat Robertson tonight. Please tell him to shut up, sooner rather than later. Urge him to retire to his prayer closet and close the door for a few years. Maybe he can bench press some massive leather-bound copies of ancient Bible commentaries, or something like that.
