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of the new yorker the magazine had claimed a stake in the election having published an endorsement of a presidential candidate the democrat john kerry for the first time in its 80 year history the lengthy editorial framed the bush presidency as a creature of a supreme court fiat and decried its record of failure arrogance and incompetence to his credit editor david remnick thought our readers deserved an explanation of the unexpected to them republican wave polling suggested that republicans owed their victory to a cohort that the media quickly labeled values voters people who supported the war on terror and believed that john kerry and the democrats didn t represent their values at the core of this group of course were people of faith who regularly attended worship services my assignment go out among these voters and explain their motivations to the insular world the new yorker represents i used to joke that i was assigned the faith beat because i was the guy at the new yorker who d been to church and i am indeed a believer but i was anything but an expert on religion and i quickly learned that very few of any reporters in the mainstream media were happily i quickly discovered getreligion org a website founded on the recognition that the mainstream press didn t get religion tagged the new yorker mel gibson pope benedict xvi tmatt david remnick george w bush united methodists please respect our commenting policy guest february 1 2024 world religions tv radio academia godbeat international news journalism africa salute from will norton at ole miss religion plays a crucial role in news around the world guest february 1 2024 world religions tv radio academia godbeat international news journalism africa during world war ii when i was a young boy in the belgian congo dad would turn on the large radio console and listen to bbc news years later he explained to me that charles degaulle a french general was in exile in brazzaville the capital of french congo across the river from what was then leopoldville now kinshasa we were upriver in the ubangi territory the extreme northwest corner of belgium s largest african colony my father said that many ex patriates and congolese were worried that adolph hitler was going to send troops to central africa to capture general degaulle and occupy the region north africa already had been occupied by the axis powers so the bbc provided our family with important news for our daily lives when we moved to the united states dad and i would listen to world news roundup with winston burdett as we ate breakfast because of this i realized how important accurate news is and that shaped everything that i did while working at newspapers and magazines and eventually teaching journalism at three universities the goal was to pass on to students the significance of accurate and complete reporting and many have distinguished themselves in community and regional journalism as well as elite media to help students prepare for media careers we often brought outstanding journalists and scholars especially those who also wrote for mass media to campus one of these events helped inspire the creation of getreligion after the tragedy of september 11 2001 our journalism team at the university of nebraska invited the legendary martin marty fairfax m cone distinguished service professor emeritus of the history of modern christianity at the university of chicago in many polls marty had been named as one of america s most trusted religious leaders he was a legend among religion beat professionals leading to the old saying that the formula for a front page feature was a national study or poll several local anecdotes and a quote from martin marty marty a native of nebraska came to lecture about religion in the mainstream press we asked terry mattingly a journalism professor and syndicated religion columnist to respond to marty s presentation tagged bbc news congo world war ii university of nebraska university of mississippi will norton martin marty 9 11 the revealer roy peter clark poynter org c s lewis please respect our commenting policy richard ostling february 1 2024 godbeat journalism politics supreme court richard ostling churches business closing one door whither 21st century religion and our beleaguered news media richard ostling february 1 2024 godbeat journalism politics supreme court richard ostling churches business the religion guy wishes to underscore increasingly obvious aspects of 21st century america one religion is in crisis two the media are in crisis three media treatment of religion is in crisis therefore as getreligion org disbands this week something like this website has never been more needed will anyone again provide informed running assessments of this complex and emotion laden journalistic beat please note that my question has also been raised this week by kenneth woodward the guy s toe to toe competitor for two decades as the newsweek and time religion writers during the newsmagazines heyday starting february 13 the guy will be posting new analytical articles at religion unplugged but on the way out the door feels urgency to reflect on the three points above the third how the media handle and mishandle religion has been amply documented most every day on this very website so we turn to the realities facing the other two feel free to explore the 20 years of that work in the getreligion archive in the future on number one u s religion s great depression is apparent anywhere you look whether survey data on the rising unaffiliated nones or church groups own yearly counts on sunday school enrollment weddings baptisms and funerals fellow religion writers can add many more particulars gallup has invaluable data on cultural mood swings from polls that have posed the same questions across so many years since 1973 gallup has asked americans whether they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in a wide list of social institutions public trust has been tumbling across the board in the 21st century so that only the military and small business now command confidence from majorities and the military numbers are now headed down tagged getreligion media bias gallup pew research center tmatt niche news newsweek time the los angeles times the washington post the new york times covid 19 workup the salt lake tribune politico institute for nonprofit news reporters committee for freedom of the pres clemente lisi religion unplugged crossroads please respect our commenting policy guest january 31 2024 tv radio sexual abuse people journalism godbeat catholicism thomas a szyszkiewicz a farewell to getreligion from catholic radio guest january 31 2024 tv radio sexual abuse people journalism godbeat catholicism twenty years is a good run unfortunately getreligion should run for at least another 20 more years because the need is still there and under the circumstances that terry mattingly has described of the current state of journalism one could easily argue that the need is even greater now than it was when this weblog was born but alas and alack it seems that those with the charge of doing actual journalism have not been listening to the wisdom emanating from the authors on this brave site instead of a revival of the classic american style of objective reporting the owners of the fourth estate have denominated themselves into camps according to their respective narratives that leaves them completely closed to the possibility of learning something new including how to cover the religion beat as a catholic media pro this has been especially hard to watch because it makes me believe that there s an agenda here whether journalism executives want to admit it or not when usa today sends out a breaking news alert that links to a story reporting what is old news on the clergy sex abuse crisis that makes a reader wonder why they are so uninformed about basic facts clemente lisi s latest of many getreligion posts about attacks on catholic churches shows that it s not getting any better we are talking about basic information here tagged tmatt clergy sex abuse scandal clemente lisi church attacks doug leblanc karma light please respect our commenting policy guest january 31 2024 social issues scriptures religious liberty journalism godbeat catholicism archbishop charles j chaput the religion beat is where our defining freedoms meet guest january 31 2024 social issues scriptures religious liberty journalism godbeat catholicism a free press is part of the american identity it s also one of our essential institutions a responsible press and a faith shaped by the god of charity and justice share two things in common a concern for human dignity and an interest in truth this is why to be specific journalism coverage of religion is so important believers and non believers might define that word truth differently and the differences might be serious but an honest search for it creates a kind of maturity and that maturity enables us to build a decent common future through our choices here and now freedom means that our choices matter and our mistakes have consequences that s why so many people increasingly today seem to want a rescue from the burden of personal responsibility deliverance from the work of thinking critically about themselves their world their mortality and the purpose of their lives we all struggle with these temptations americans as a people are no exception so i can imagine an america without a genuinely free and fair press and i can imagine an america with much less religious faith we re well on the way to getting both but in either case the result will be a very different america and a betrayal of the generations that built it tagged archbishop charles chaput religion writing truth getreligion please respect our commenting policy julia duin january 30 2024 godbeat julia duin social issues politics people pentecostal charismatics international news sexual abuse abortion catholicism julia duin it s been a long road and we ve reached the end of our getreligion journey julia duin january 30 2024 godbeat julia duin social issues politics people pentecostal charismatics international news sexual abuse abortion catholicism it s been almost nine years since that day in february 2015 when terry called me in alaska to ask if i d join the getreligion team starting march 1 we already had a reminder of the mattingly family sitting in our home an enormous lion gifted by terry and debra to my daughter veeka when she was 6 1 2 about the time she stayed with them for several days while i was on a reporting trip i ve included a photo of the aslan like creature with her delighted face just after she received it the lion still keeps vigil by her window the getreligion assignment terry told me was that i d concentrate on west coast media and culture wars coverage since then my writing has ranged w a y beyond that from john allen chau to josh harris i have picked up a lot about analytical writing hopefully have not made too many enemies and have shown some light into dark corners sometimes i hit it out of the park with the election of president donald trump and the ascendancy of his pastor rev paula white i spread word of an ascendant pentecostal charismatic movement that was way more powerful than its non charismatic evangelical counterpart this was years ahead of the curve not a whole lot of folks were listening until jan 6 2021 but you dear readers were seeing it here first starting my nov 10 2020 column that begins with the frantic prayers in white s florida church in the face of a trump loss by the time my dec 15 2020 column about the jericho march in dc surfaced there were prophets nationwide saying trump would win no matter what and other disturbing trends that not enough reporters were tracking why these prophets were considered wackos by most my jan 11 2021 column about the aftermath of jan 6 when some of those wackos showed up on the streets of washington and the resulting civil war among charismatics got a lot more ears and a ton of hits by this time the trump prophets who had erroneously prophesied that the 45th president would win a second consecutive term were in the middle of a theological maelstrom the day of biden s inauguration i penned one last column on the topic here i count the work i did on the prophets and my coverage on cardinal theodore mccarrick as among the best work i did for this blog tagged cardinal mccarrick trump prophecies donald trump paula white jericho march pope benedict xvi newsweek the washington times religion newswriters association 3 comments please respect our commenting policy guest january 30 2024 www tech tv radio people journalism international news godbeat canada anglicanism a salute from north of the border care of cbc radio veteran anna liza kozma guest january 30 2024 www tech tv radio people journalism international news godbeat canada anglicanism what do you mean by blog i asked my friend terry mattingly nearly a quarter of a century ago in jerusalem as we attended a conference on religion in the news which took place just before pope john paul ii s millennial visit the style is informal and conversational tmatt explained and he promised it won t take you as long to write a blog post as it does a news story or a column terry s vision was to create an online place we didn t use the word platform then for journalists to write what he called orphaned religion stories you know religion ghost stories stories with missing in action religion hooks buried in plain sight i was fascinated and sceptical i was fascinated because i was writing and producing cbc radio s spirituality show and steering it towards the kind of unembarrassed religion coverage i d grown up with on the bbc as a career long public broadcasting staffer who assuaged my writing itch by freelancing i loved talking to unusual thoughtful people as a baptised catholic turned anglican via british evangelicalism i knew the religion beat was full of unheard voices l abri and os guinness had taught me that journalism was as worthwhile a vocation as being a vicar or an academic or a mother you could even combine them how i longed to be part of terry s vision but i was sceptical because as a full time staffer at canadian broadcasting i couldn t take on a regular commitment outside the mothership worse still would be management perceiving my association with god buddha allah forbid a religious outfit of some kind making judgments about journalism tagged anna liza kosma cbc pope john paul ii jerusalem blogging l abri gegrapha please respect our commenting policy guest january 29 2024 www tech international news politics orthodoxy social media journalism got news farewell from moscow this american ran into getreligion online and never stopped reading guest january 29 2024 www tech international news politics orthodoxy social media journalism got news to be honest i still can t remember 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