![]() ![]() Yet, I’m not convinced that improving the American educational system is really at the heart of Cannon’s plaint about religion coverage and his subsequent post on Kermit Gosnell. Religion is absent from many high school curricula and university classrooms, and many of us barely know the religious history of our own country much less the role of religion worldwide. Trained religion reporters, but rather Americans’ widespread ignorance about religion. I MASTER OF MY DOMAIN TRIALMenken's critique of Fundamentalism in his account of the Scope's "monkey" trial or the "anti-Hindu coverage that ran through Western newspapers in the 1910s and 1920s." The crux of her argument is that the problem is not a lack of: In support of this contention, the article offers historical examples purporting to show the press has always done a poor job - missing stories, printing pablum in place of news or voicing prejudice such as H.L. ![]() Provided smart, in-depth, contextualized coverage of religious leaders, issues, ideas, and communities. Writing in Religion Dispatches Diane Winston argues in "The Myth of News Media as Secularist Conspiracy" there has never been a golden era when reporters ![]() Move along."Ī few have embarked upon the high road. Other outlets in their op-ed sections have defended their non-coverage or sought to deflect criticisms – – the New York Times' Tiller editorial is classic sleight-of-hand, substituting one story for another. Stung by the criticisms and the hypocrisies detailed by Mollie Hemingway on this website, Kirsten Powers at USA Today and other outlets, some have begun reporting on the murder trial of the Philadelphia abortionist. The press is pushing back against its critics over the Kermit Gosnell affair. (T)he best persuaded of himself, so cramm'd, as he thinks, with excellencies that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him. ![]()
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