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The Ten Worst Christian Media Hacks, #5-1

Yesterday, we published the first half of our Ten Worst Christian Media Hacks, the Christian commentators whose writing is most likely to waste your time. (Click here to read the introduction and the...

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Fourteen Christian Writers Worth Your Time

Putting together my list of the worst Christian hacks in media (here and here), I naturally spent a bit of time thinking about who I’d rather people think of as Christianity’s writerly representatives....

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The New York Times' Phony Balance on "Death Panels"

On December 26, the New York Times reported that the end-of-life consultations stripped from the health care law (and infamously dubbed “death panels” by everyone’s favorite Alaskan reality-TV star)...

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Ryan Lizza’s Michele Bachmann “Smear” (Updated)

  Sarah Pulliam Bailey has a list of complaints with Ryan Lizza’s buzz-gathering profile of Michele Bachmann in this week’s New Yorker. Overall, the long report is a pretty impressive piece of work...

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High Places, Low Expectations

One of the things that most powerfully affected my point of view as a young adult was discovering how deeply I had been deceived about the motives of various groups outside my religious community,...

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Spending Your Blogging Self’s ‘Principal’

Since part of my resolution for 2013 is to write every day, it seemed fitting to begin the year by trying to stitch together some disparate things that have been floating around in my brain on the...

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The Pope and Neil Postman Walk into a Bar

As an object lesson for the Introduction to Media Studies class that I teach, I selected a video news story at random from CNN.com a few weeks ago. I didn’t offer any context for the video besides that...

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Robo-Journalism and the Future of Religion Writing

Last week, in my Writing Across the Media course, I showed a video, produced by The Washington Post, about how sports articles are being written by computer programs. Perhaps you’ve heard of this. The...

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The State of the Internet is Awful, and Everybody Knows It

I began my media career about seven years ago as an unabashed internet enthusiast. As I’ve said before, I never worked in print journalism and had little nostalgia for the world that was entering free...

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You Can’t Go Home Again: Wandering the New Media Wilderness

You may think you’re sitting at your computer (or staring at your phone) and browsing the internet, but you’re actually wandering around in the wilderness. Think Moses and the Israelites in the desert...

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