It appears that some members of the mainstream press are beginning to do the hard, bloody math in Egypt.
Doing the bloody math in an emerging civil war in Egypt
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Watching for religion ghosts in the news flashes from Egypt
A few journalistic thoughts while I continue to watch the waves of news coverage rolling in from Egypt:
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There's more to Egypt's pain than secularism vs. religion
Many GetReligion readers have, I am sure, spent some time today following the urgent news bulletins out of Egypt, where some of the largest protests in the history of the world have been taking place.
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Attention liberals: Blasphemy cases on the rise in Egypt
As I have said numerous times, I cannot imagine how hard it must be to cover the aftermath of the Arab Spring in a land as complex as Egypt, especially in news articles of a thousand words or less.
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Hurrah: CNN names some of the ghosts in Gezi Park
The coverage of events in Turkey roll on and on and the mainstream press continues to treat this as a simple clash between the moderate Islamic stance (whatever that means) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a hip, young, urban secular vision of at Turkey looking toward Europe and the future.
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Got news? Is a global 'war on Christianity' newsworthy?
Would it be newsworthy if a U.S. Senator claimed in a public address that American taxpayer dollars are being used in a war against Christian believers in — to pick one key region — the Holy Land?
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The Washington Post wants to know: So who built the Second Temple?
Kudos to the Washington Post for moving quickly to correct an error in Wednesday’s article on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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Yes, we know two Orthodox bishops are missing in Syria
Editor’s note: This happens now and then, every two or three years. Two GetReligion writers jumped on the same news subject and then proceeded to write and post at precisely the same time. What are the odds? In this case, we will simply let the two posts stand as written.
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Kidnapped Syrian Orthodox bishops still missing, despite reports
Horrible news out of Syria, where two Orthodox bishops were kidnapped. There hasn’t been enough coverage of this kidnapping and to say the coverage that’s out there is weak is an understatement. Take this story from Reuters (but don’t believe it, as I’ll explain later):
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