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When Journalists Don't Get Religion
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 November 2008
- ISBN 9780195374377
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 229x152x17 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp events' religious dimensions, both global and local, the authors argue, they are hindered from, and sometimes incapable of, describing what is happening. However, on the national level the press is one of the most secular institutions in American society - not necessarily contemptuous of serious religion, just uncomprehending. The essays in this book examine nine specific news stories that were inadequately or incorrectly reported by major news sources because their religious dimension was ignored, overlooked, or misrepresented.
MoreLong description:
Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp events' religious dimensions, both global and local, the authors argue, they are hindered from, and sometimes incapable of, describing what is happening. However, on the national level the press is one of the most secular institutions in American society - not necessarily contemptuous of serious religion, just uncomprehending. The essays in this book examine nine specific news stories that were inadequately or incorrectly reported by major news sources because their religious dimension was ignored, overlooked, or misrepresented. These stories range from the 2004 U.S. presidential elections, to Iran, Iraq, and the papal succession. In each case the author demonstrates how the story might have been more effectively reported and concludes with specific suggestions for journalist. The authors include both scholars and experienced news analysts. Although it will be of particular interest to people of faith, the book offers all readers an interesting and balanced analysis of the news media's uneasy relationship with religion and religious issues.
...an excellent book...a collection of essays showing how contemporary reporting ignores, distorts or simply fails to see the religious dimension of world events.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword - Michael Gerson
Part I: Background
Introduction - Paul Marshall
God is Winning: Religion in Global Politics - Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft
Part II: Case Studies
Religion and Terrorism: Misreading Bin Laden - Paul Marshall
Three Decades of Misreporting Iran and Iraq - Michael Rubin
Religion and International Human Rights - Allen D. Hertzke
Misunderestimating Religion in the 2004 Presidential Campaign - C. Danielle Vinson and James L. Guth
The Media and the Popes - Amy Welborn
Mel Gibsons Christ: The Passion of the Press - Jeremy Lott
Part III: Getting It Right
Getting Religion in the Newsroom - Terry Mattingly
Principles for Getting It Right - Roberta Green Ahmanson
Afterword - John DiIulio
