Let’s pull this comment from the Dallas Morning News religion-beat funeral post right out front. It comes from long-time reader Chris and deserves open debate.
Yes, we need the MSM shark
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Writing in tongues
If great religion journalism is going to survive, it is going to be because of the writing and not because of the pictures, graphics, videos or even blogs. That was driven home to me today when I read Andrew Rice’s masterful piece in the New York Times Magazine on the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the African missionary churches that the Times says is transforming Western Christianity.
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Return of the Rev. James Dobson (not)
From time to time, your GetReligionistas have enjoyed poking fun at the mainstream journalists who cannot, simply cannot, accept the fact that Focus on the Family czar James Dobson is not the Rev. James Dobson.
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5Q+1: Ari Goldman is in the house
Not to bury the lede or anything, by when it comes to religion writing, Prof. Ari L. Goldman of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has been there and done that. During his two decades at the New York Times, he was one of the nation’s most trusted bylines on the religion beat and I have heard that judgment voiced by a stunningly broad range of clergy and Godbeat critics.
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Cue the theme from "Jaws"
So, are many newsrooms in the allegedly “American” media poised to plunge back into history and become “European” newspapers again, publications that openly advocate specific political and even theological points of view?
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Silence of the Christian book sellers
This may be turning into a “theme week” for me here at GetReligion. Call it the “dog that didn’t bark” week. Or maybe I need to run that lighthouse joke — again. Remember that one?
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Whoo hoo!
Longtime GetReligion presence danr will receive the coveted coffee mug that we promised to the person who posted the 50,000th comment on our blog. Congratulations, dan! You will of course find that coffee, tea or any other beverage tastes just a bit more heavenly in this vessel.
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Who wants to be No. 50,000?
As I type this, there are 49,980 comments attached to the 4,157 posts spread out over the five-plus years of life here at GetReligion.
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JournoList vs. GetReligion
All week, I had people asking what I thought about THAT story, you know, the Politico piece about the top-secret online congregation of liberal journalists that has been helping keep the left on message for the past two years.
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