{"id":1025,"date":"2008-12-23T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:44:53","slug":"the-press-and-religion-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-press-and-religion-a-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Press and Religion: A Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right on time: A <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123000033860729321.html\">Wall Street Journal book review <\/a>claiming that the press is hostile to, and ignorant of, religion.<\/p>\n<p>Among the evidence offered: Pope John Paul was characterized in \u201cdecidedly less flattering terms\u201d as \u201cdisciplinarian,\u201d \u201cauthoritarian,\u201d and even \u201cmonarchical.\u201d Were such epithets clearly mistaken? And why are they deemed disrespectful? I wish more principles and teachers were \u201cdisciplinarian\u201d and \u201cauthoritarian.\u201d Authority is the whole point of the Papacy, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, anyone who argues that John Paul was not overwhelmingly treated as a celebrity and source of moral rectitude has a religion offense-meter calibrated to truly paranoid levels.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky Mountain News editor Vincent Carroll concludes his review of <em>Blind Spot: When Journalists Don&#8217;t Get Religion<\/em> thus:\u00a0 &#8220;Many journalists, it would seem, equate modernity with secularism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s compare a Sunday in, say, 1493 Paris spent at the cathedral or in the lord&#8217;s private chapel with one in 2008 Akron, filled with a trip to the mall for the latest Ipod, an Ohio State game on TV, children&#8217;s soccer practice, oh, and yes, also maybe a trip to church. Many journalists, it would seem, are merely witness to history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on time: A Wall Street Journal book review claiming that the press is hostile to, and ignorant of, religion. Among the evidence offered: Pope John Paul was characterized in \u201cdecidedly less flattering terms\u201d as \u201cdisciplinarian,\u201d \u201cauthoritarian,\u201d and even \u201cmonarchical.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-press-and-religion-a-case-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}