Media
Throughout the first year of the Iraq war, the Bush administration managed to keep a pretty tight lid on the war news that reached U.S. media consumers. Embedded reporters told the battlefront story from the viewpoint of U.S. troops. And the big media institutions back home - right up to The New York
The Glasgow University Media Group decided to research how much about the Middle East conflict students learned from watching TV. This is what they found.
People of faith who complain about the religion gap in commercial television news coverage often try to explain it by charging that people running national news organizations are not well-enough
Not wanting to lose all credibility as a populist, I want to risk my credentials by criticizing for once not "the media elites" but "the people." Those elites may have some anti- or post-religiou
For much of the 30 years that I have been in some of America's top newsrooms, religion was treated like those klutzy galoshes our parents forced on us during heavy snowstorms.
A Washington Post ombudsman once tried to explain the stereotyping of evangelicals by a Post reporter who described them as "poor, uneducated, and easy to command."
I've been a religion reporter for more than a decade, and I still find that many misunderstand my titlejournalists included.
I understand why people of faith often have an ax to grind with the media. I wouldn't say to them, "Come on, we have the same mission. We're truth seekers.
Several years ago I wrote a column on faith and families to be distributed to secular newspapers.
In newsrooms around the country, religion is no longer a dead-end assignment—but the media still have a long way to go before they get it right.
By now the Littleton, Colorado high school massacre has become the cultural Rorschach test for the new millennium.
Just over 18 months ago, my mother was dancing at my wedding. Only a month later, my mom discovered that she had cancer of the abdominal lining.