On Bullshit News
In the Godforsaken Wilderness is a blog by Patrick Blanchfield being published in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Continue Reading →
Tag: media criticism
Everyone’s a Critic
New: The Revealer presents a set of sorta-secular links to mainstream media criticism. Recommendations welcome.
Everyone's a Critic
New: The Revealer presents a set of sorta-secular links to mainstream media criticism. Recommendations welcome.
Everybody's Jew
I Was a Passion News Source. By Laurel Snyder It’s a strange thing, the hunger for public statements, testimonials. Periodically, an important event takes place and forces the media to seek out a community response. Continue Reading →
Get It? Got It. Good.
The Revealer welcomes some competition in the religion-press-critique business from GetReligion.org, a new blog edited by Doug LeBlanc and written, for the most part, byTerry Mattingly. The two bring an impressive range of experience Continue Reading →
Framing Power
Maybe religion reporters aren’t so stupid, after all. By Diane Winston I understand Chris Smith’s frustration with the secular media’s coverage of religion (“Religiously Ignorant Journalists”). While Smith was rattled Continue Reading →
What’s in a Name?
“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at a Revealer reading in Ann Arbor, Michigan, though, seemed to have only one Continue Reading →
What's in a Name?
“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at a Revealer reading in Ann Arbor, Michigan, though, seemed to have only one Continue Reading →
Getting It All Wrong
The other day The Revealer was on a radio show with an otherwise very clever journalist who noted that far more people believe in the virgin birth than believe in evolution. What Continue Reading →
What We Don't Know, and Why
Religiously Ignorant Journalists By Christian Smith Today I received a phone message from a journalist from a major Dallas newspaper who wanted to talk to me about a story he Continue Reading →