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Journalists Not Biased Against Religion, Just "Ignorant
USA Today has an interesting article from Washington Journalism Center's Terry Mattingly. "At times, the mood turned hostile toward the lawmakers in the stately white building behind the stage," wrote The Washington Post in its coverage of the event. Then, without explanation, the story offered this on-stage quotation from a religious broadcaster: "Let's pray that God will slay everyone in the…
Parade Pushes Another Gas Tax
Magazine's guide to going green, fighting global warming calls for less green in your pocketbook.
Newsweek's Hard-hitting Celebrity Investigative Journalism
15 People Who Make America GreatNewsweek Magazine#4 Brad Pitt"If it wasn't for Brad Pitt, most Americans would never have heard of Namibia. They might not know about AIDS orphans in South Africa, or the plight of children in Haiti, or what transpired at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."Google News: "Brad Pitt Namibia World Economic Forum Davos Switzerland"Results about "what…
Crisis Over: Boys Fail Slightly Less Than We Thought
A train wreck of reporting and editing is displayed in Study Casts Doubt On the 'Boy Crisis' by the Washington Post's Jay Mathews on the front page. It's based on a report by a think tank called Education Sector, and tries to refute years of research showing boys' collective disadvantage in education. The logic of this report is illustrated in the following quote from the report itself, written…
The New York Times on a Swift Boat to Court
In today’s terror-stricken world, which is more vital to the public’s interest: being safe, or being informed?This very question has come before the management of the New York Times twice in the past six months. On both occasions, even though it went completely contrary to the national security requests of the White House, their conclusion was that ignorance is indeed not bliss.Sadly, it appears…