Baylor grad pushes app for cheaters?
A long, long time ago, I was a journalism major at Baylor University, which, as you may know, is the world’s largest Baptist university. Baylor is located in Waco, Texas, which many folks in the Lone...
View ArticleEuropean values after Auschwitz
Seventy years after the Holocaust, Germany has constructed the first monument honoring the half million gypsies murdered in the Holocaust. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reported the news with a photo of the...
View ArticleThe decline and fall of King David Petraeus
Even by Friday night news dumps, this one was a doozie. David Petraeus resigned on Friday afternoon for reasons related to adultery. Which led Joyce Carol Oates to tweet: Don’t understand why...
View ArticleMarco Rubio and the media’s curiously inconsistent approach to science
I wonder if any of our readers have read Thomas Nagel’s new book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. I’ve been reading the reviews and...
View ArticleDefining depravity downwards in Deutschland
Der Spiegel‘s English-language bulletin reports that conservative deputies on the Agricultural Affairs committee of the Bundestag have introduced legislation banning sex with animals. I never knew the...
View ArticleMissing the grasshopper in the stem-cell debate
Master Po: Ha, ha, never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see. Close your eyes. What do you hear? Young Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds. Master Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?...
View ArticleShould Fox News be telling you to lie and steal?
I realize I’m the fuddy duddy around here who is always telling kids to get off my lawn, but there have to be other people who were saddened by this FoxNews.com story headlined “Hotel confidential:...
View ArticleSavita’s tragic death and media ethics
The tragic death of Savita Halappananvar continues to produce headlines, particularly in Europe and India. We looked at some of the initial coverage three weeks ago, where I noted that the US media had...
View ArticleTelling Newtown’s story sensitively
I hope you can see the picture here. If you can’t, please click here for a larger image. I saw it on Adam Gabbatt’s Twitter feed on Dec. 15. He’s a reporter for The Guardian. He added: Now at special...
View ArticleMixing scales of justice and songs of praise
Strange, strange, strange — like something out of a John Grisham novel. That was my first reaction to an Associated Press news story about a Tennessee jury accused of singing, praying and reading Bible...
View ArticleThe ghost of abortion in adoption stories
Like many Americans, I’ve been developing an interest in Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers. I came across a blog post that asserted something provocative: San Francisco 49ers...
View ArticleMedia coverage of Roe at 40
One could write several volumes under this headline, but we’ll just look at a few items to come out in recent days. Let’s start with this from NBC: As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme...
View ArticleAll the anonymous Vatican voices in the Gray Lady
At this point in the conclave process, I’m sure that millions of liberal Catholics are carefully watching The New York Times daily coverage to see what the world’s most powerful newspaper has to say...
View ArticleHypocrisy, grace and a fallen cardinal
The downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s senior Roman Catholic cleric, has not shown the press at its best. While the Observer, the Guardian newspaper’ Sunday edition, deserves high praise for...
View ArticleGhosts in Brennan’s Constitution oath?
Various media reported that new CIA chief John O. Brennan swore his oath of office last week on a Constitution that didn’t contain the Bill of Rights. And, given his strenuous support of the U.S. drone...
View ArticleTelling the ‘truth’ in Hamas-Israeli conflict
Here’s another story that I wanted to cover last week before I got injured and was in too much pain to be of much use to anyone. But the delay gives us more to talk about. Do you remember this riveting...
View ArticleThe new ‘abortion’: cutting newborns’ spinal cords
Two years ago, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was arrested for the murders of eight people at the abortion clinic a jury called a “house of horrors.” As I wrote at that time, normally if anyone in the country is...
View ArticleJournalism and stem cell research 101
If you think general religion coverage is bad, try mixing it with media coverage of science. Then try to find a reporter who handles it well. It’s almost impossible. Back when I started at GetReligion,...
View ArticleAustralian Anglican Indulgences
An Australian bishop’s veto of a gaming industry proposal to donate funds to a church social service agency to hire additional gambling addiction counselors has been met with incredulity by the Sunday...
View ArticleShould 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. The only problem is that there is a curious lack...
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