This book makes the case that news organizations often fail in covering major stories because they minimize or misunderstand underlying religious issues. It’s an argument I’ve long sympathized with, dating to the early 1990s when I covered religion at New York Newsday and saw that my first task was to break out of the notion that religion was newsworthy only where it inters (...)
April 10, 2009
Books
The Need for Skepticism
Blind SpotWhen Journalists Don’t Get ReligionEdited by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Roberta Green AhmansonOxford University Press, $19.95, 220 pp.
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