GetReligion is a site that covers not religion, but the way religion gets covered by the MSM. Their critiques of media events tend to be thoughtful and thought-provoking and have changed my mind about an issue from time to time. I also occasionally juxtapose their interpretation of a story with some other website's interpretation.
This week's variety of stories is a perfect example of the quality of coverage shown on this site.
1. There's coverage of a story by Neil MacFarquhar in the New York Times on how the differences between Sunnis and Shias is playing out in the U.S.
2. There's a story on the way the L.A. Times mangled a timeline of important events in the Episcopal church split (including a critique of the timeline itself as being overly concerned with homosexuality).
3. Terry Mattingly discusses a long ago article he wrote on U2 and the religious overtones in some of their early music, but that, in no way, could one label their music as "contemporary Christian."
I thoroughly enjoy the mix of stories and perspectives provided on this site and recommend it to anyone interested in religion and how it gets reported.
Of course religion stories get mangled; the MSM wouldn't dare hire someone who actually understood religion matters to cover churches. And if they ever did do that, the editors would so heavily blue pencil his stories that they'd be meaningless anyway.
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