Last week, a sad news story out of Pennsylvania made the rounds. Originally, it had a bad headline and lede:
Pennsylvania reporter shows how to correct an error
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Media treatment of Mikey Weinstein under scrutiny
Earlier today I mentioned some questions I have about this crazy “court-martial” story that blew up this week. The post is headlined “I share, you evangelize, they proselytize,” in reference to GetReligion reader Will Linden’s saying about how the same action can be described in different ways.
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I share, you evangelize, they proselytize
Defense Dept. say proselytism is banned but evangelism is ok (and no one’s getting court martialed) ow.ly/kERmC
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Just what was this American doing in North Korea?
Let’s begin this post by first looking at a Christianity Today blog post from earlier this week. Here’s a portion:
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Why is Paula Broadwell's faith such a mystery?
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Breaking the silence on abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell
Sometimes other people do such fine GetReligion-esque media criticism that we just like to point at it and then walk away.
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Revelations, Books of Psalms and other scriptures
Last week we noticed some embarrassing corrections related to how newspapers described the Epistle to the Ephesians. In the comments, Godbeat veteran Ann Rodgers wrote:
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Today's Epistle reading is from the New York Times
Last week, tmatt reflected on how the above reading at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was being portrayed by some in the media. It seems some had a rather narrow and inaccurate interpretation of the text.
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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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