Media

Do Journalists Understand Religion?

Do Journalists Understand Religion? Do journalists understand religion? This lingering question is frequently — and sometimes frustratingly — asked by media critics and the general public, alike.

Whether its a Congressional funding battle over abortion, a debate over prayer at a public school graduation ceremony or stories that cover how the U.S. military should engage with different sects in a war-torn nation, religion plays a role in daily societal events. Despite the major influence faith has on national and international events, many believe that the media do a poor job capturing, explaining and illustrating religious subject matter and concepts.

To begin, we know that there’s a major divide between journalists and the general public when it comes to personal faith. In 2007, The Pew Research Center reported that only 8 percent of national journalists claim that they attend church or synagogue each week. This compares with 39 percent of the general public. While a lack of personal affiliation doesn‘t necessarily mean that journalists can’t properly report on religion, this disparity is important to note.

Over the weekend, Deseret News explored the plethora of reasons that journalists and media outlets often find themselves disconnected from the general public on matters of faith and religion. In the piece, Kevin Eckstrom, the editor of Religion News Service, sheds some light on this important consideration. He claims that poor coverage may be the result of inexperience and lack of training. Eckstrom says:

“When it’s done badly, it tends to be because the reporters aren’t well-versed or well-trained. To a degree it’s not their fault, but they still have the obligation to do it right, and their editors have an obligation to take it seriously and to make sure what they’re doing is done right.”

Michael Cromartie, Vice President of Ethics and Public Policy Center and founder of the Faith Angle Forum conference for journalists, seems to agree:

“The simple reason the press is this way is that they’ve all gone to universities where the secularist mindset is the norm. It’s a higher education problem. They’ve been incubated in a world where religion is seen as a phenomenon of the past,” he said.

So, how can these issues be remedied? Some experts tell Deseret News that there needs to be more diversity in the newsroom. And while journalists need to be educated, so do the editors and personnel who assign stories and support editorial and broadcast staff. Additionally, some claim that people of faith need to willingly enter the field so that they can help their peers better understand matters of faith and religion. What do you think?

To read more about the disconnect between journalists and the general public, click here.

Comments (111)

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  • Bhaub
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:59pm

    Hehe! I never get tired of an article saying, “They’re too educated to be religious. They’ve learned too much to belief this stuff.”

    And then religious folks go, “SEE?! Colleges are BAD!”

    Haha! Amazing. XD

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    • cntrlfrk
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Funny how people think everything they learn in College is right, and cannot be disputed or challenged.

      Small minds can’t believe in something bigger than man.

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    • Bhaub
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:26pm

      Funny how people think everything they learn in the Bible is right, and cannot be disputed or challenged.

      Small minds can’t believe in something bigger than man.

      :)

      (By the way, colleges and science demand citation and evidence for claims. Write a paper without citing sources and you will flunk. Put out junk science with no evidence? Flunk. That’s how academia works. We back our stuff up.)

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  • MilesF
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:52pm

    A good example is Lisa Miller of Newsweek who writes a column on religion even though she spends most of her time putting down her subject. If Newsweek wants a column on religion, what made them pick somebody who hates it?

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  • Yaakov
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:48pm

    For shame, most religious people do not understand their own religion, if that religion is based on One God, for which the three main religions start with that premise. So if the religious don’t understand the basics of their religion, and the journalist mostly come from families of the religious(at some point), what are they going to understand? For example First commandment Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” where did HE change the LAW? Seek the truth, don’t let anyone tell you what to believe, it is your soul at stake.

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  • Barack Must Go
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:48pm

    Whether they themselves understand it really is irrelevant. Them not accepting someones religious beliefs as a legitimate basis for a poltical decision is and is totally discounted as “ crazy talk ” by the entirety of the MSM today.

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  • boxy
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:43pm

    I completely agree with this article. I read an article on cnn.com last night that made an arrogant statement saying that many Christians believe falsely that Satan tempted eve to eat the fruit. Because in Genesis it is only referred to as the serpent. What these journalists don’t understand that “ignorant” people of the faith do, is that deception and lies meant to turn you away from God is the work of the anti-Christ. And whether or not he wasn’t mentioned as Satan does not hide that fact that it was him(also ignoring the fact that he is referred to as a serpent many times in the following books). The mainstream media will start to discredit us as ignorant uneducated nuts and after Israel falls we are next. This is a war against god that has been prophesied and will come to pass. The sad thing is they wont realize the truth until its all over and innocent blood is shed.

    here’s the link btw: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/thats-not-in-the-bible/?npt=NP1

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  • edcoil
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:37pm

    The better question is: Should they be reporting on something they don’t understand.

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  • publicuss
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:33pm

    Ratings, just ratings, that’s all they understand. Like the A.C. Nielson js script running on this site to track which stories we read, linger and comment on.

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  • flsnipe
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:29pm

    Lauren Green does. Some do some dont! but why should they half of what is talked about is foreign to them. Not to many of them live in the real world.

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:25pm

    I‘m more worried that journalists don’t sell us out and turn us into the countries that are stuck in the Stone Age and Dark Ages.

    Journalists – read the history – Communism and Socialism aren’t nice. Women oppressed and beaten and killed in Muslim cultures – really really die. It’s not just a make for TV movie.

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  • NathanM
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:24pm

    “…people of faith need to willingly enter the field so that they can help their peers better understand matters of faith and religion.” right after Ben Shapiro: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-audio-author-releases-interviews-capturing-hollywoods-disdain-for-conservatives/

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  • Drives Like Jehu
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:22pm

    The media are satan’s handmaidens for the most part; they understand the world, the flesh and the devil. However, who cares??? I want to get my understanding of God from the Bible via the Holy Spirit, not from a bunch of self-serving self-absorbed God rejectors anyway.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:21pm

    I don’t understand why anyone gives a flip if journalists understand religion. What I know that many of them don’t get is the relationship between Christ and his believers. That is, of course; until they become believers in Him.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:21pm

    I don’t really care! If you need religion go to church!!!! Why is this stuff always being shoved down our throat in one way or another. Just live you life in peace and practice your faith to yourself and do good onto others so and so on but leave everyone else alone.

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    • cntrlfrk
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:34pm

      I had to look it up to be sure, but, sure enough,

      Theophobia, fear of Gods or religion does exist.

      It is otherwise known as Bigotry.

      .

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:11pm

      Our faith is whittling away.That we allow abortion and that patriotism and war mongering has replaced christian spirituality ,is because the secular state that does not nourish christianity ,has a stronger voice than christian voices and its secular values [abortion,war etc] over power spiritual oones.it’s just a matter of time before americans become as a-religious as europeans.Even baptists are going green.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:18pm

    Reporters fail to understand most things. Why should religion be any different?

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:34pm

      The disconnect exists because face it, christianity is dying out in america. We pay lip service to it, but our real religion is Americanism. Everything we claim muslims do in the name of islam ,we do in the name of americanism [murder and torture and valuing patriotism above all values].Perhaps secular democracy leads inexorably to athiesm and those islamic theocracies are fighing to maintain their right to establish religious theocracies in their homeland.When one day we become a nation of athiests, we’ll look back at Osama and see the last defender not just of islam but of all religions.When all religions have equal validity and rights, it ‘s just a matter of time before religions whither away.

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    • Mandors
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:52pm

      The USA was founded on the belief that theocracy is anathema to liberty. That truth is not the same thing as atheism. That it is was an idea that was injected into popular culture about the turn of the century. The notion that Iran instituted a theocracy by public opinion is a lie. A group of extremists highjacked a popular uprising against a dictator, (who could have resisted it, thanks for that one Carter), and imposed their extremist beliefs by force.

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    • Mikhail Kennedy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:41pm

      Rose bin Ellen
      Osama fighting for the rights of all religions? What are you smoking? You are a tool.
      Allah is Satan and Mohamed is his demon.

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  • bikerr
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:16pm

    Not the Journalist’s fault?.Then who’s fault is it?. They should know what they are talking about or at least let us know they don’t know (although we can probably tell by what they write.)

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  • symbolsofa
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:10pm

    There are as many as 10 million to 12 million Muslims living in the United States and contributing to the country as doctors, engineers, artists, actors, scientists, lawyers, attorneys and professionals, but for a decade many have found themselves and their religion wrongly equated with the acts of terrorists like israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, israeli foreign minister libermann, George W Bush, Chengez Khan, Adolf Hitler, Israeli Secret Service Mossad, CIA, FBI, MI5, KGB networks. Many have been the victims of fear, suspicion, prejudice, Muslim-bashing, unlawful surveillance, illegal search, arrest and imprisonment. the jews and the jewish lobby of america is behind in spreading hatred against muslims and islam through the western media. The Muslims of America will definitely teach their kids not to make friendship with your enemies ( orthodox christians and jews). they cannot be your friends. The enemies of islam are fully aware of the fact that islam is the only religion which can bring peace and calm to this world, and these enemies of islam do not want the world to know what islam teaches and what islam believes. they want to create hurdles in the way of islam and want to stop islam in america and in rest of the world. Muslim kids must prepare themselves to confront with this jewish lobby who is behind the screen and playing the foul game against islam and muslims and Indeed jews are haters of mankind, eaters of human flesh and killers of women and kids.

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:13pm

      Paranoid rant much?

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    • cntrlfrk
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:16pm

      LOL!

      That’s funny!

      ‘

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:18pm

      Symbols – you may be intelligent but your anti-semitic rant destroys any credibility that you can contribute to discourse. You were also off topic.

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    • PatriotSmith
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:20pm

      “islam is the only religion which can bring peace and calm to this world,” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…….wait…your serious aren’t you….

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    • bikerr
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:21pm

      @ symbolsofa–10 to 12 million?. And still silence on the acts of terror committed against the U.S. of A. I think their silence speaks volumes on where they and there“religion” stand!

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    • Mandors
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:22pm

      Is this a backhanded slam on Islam? Sorry, the sarcasm level is bit abstruse.

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    • nomercy63
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:32pm

      I do not purchase anything at Muslim businesses I will not deal with a Muslim in any way shape or form, if you own a gas station I will drive 20 miles out of my way not to spend a dime at one of your businesses. You are nothing but human trash and until you reform that sick and disgusting religion and act like part of the human race I have no use for you!!!! Blame everyone but yourself and what you do!! the world will be at peace when that filthy hateful nazi religion disappears from human history! oh by the way did I fail to mention I am Jewish ooops! I guess you want to kill me too, good luck trash it ain’t going to happen!

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    • publicuss
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:38pm

      @symbolsofa
      Okay, I’m sorry I fell asleep, you were saying….zzzzzzzzz

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    • PatriotSmith
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:39pm

      So questions then….why do the terrorists scream Allah Akbar before they blow themselves up in a crowd of women and children….i still haven’t figured it out either

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    • vennoye
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:40pm

      @symbolsofa
      I really feel sorry for you……….how the lies you have been told have twisted your logic. If Muslims are so mistreated here, they probably need to return to a country where Sharia Law controls. Don’t Muslims consider a country under Sharia Law “Heaven on Earth”? We are watching Islam’s version of peace and calm all over the middle east right now. Syria, Lybia, Yemen, Egypt. Evil never brings peace — killing and destruction are evil.

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    • SREGN
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:04pm

      Sofa – If, as you say, it is a “fact that islam is the only religion which can bring peace and calm to this world”, why is it that wherever they are all over the world they are fighting everybody else? No offence, but if everywhere you go you are constantly getting into fights, at some point you have to look into the mirror and ask the question, “could it be me that’s the problem?”

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    • hologram5
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:06pm

      DUDE, you watch waaay too much MSLSD. These people in the ME want to see us ALL DECEASED or do you listen to the foreign news stations. Time to take your meds…

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  • saranda
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:08pm

    I don’t want my news tainted with the delivery persons personal beliefs, religious or otherwise. I want facts, and then let me make up my mind on the content and issues. Economist and the CS Monitor do what I think are good jobs at this.

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:16pm

      Unfortunately, it is not possible to do that. Even if you and I witnessed the same event, our description of it could be wildly divergent. Humans can only strive for true objectivity.

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    • lindathepatriot
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Saranda…

      Do you think someone who has no morals will present the truth? The media has no obligation to present facts. They lie and distort the truth, then call it fact. I want the truth presented by people who feel morally obligated in their hearts to present the truth. Who can we trust?….FoxNews.

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    • saranda
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:03pm

      Linda, Yes I do think I can get the truth. Take all the editorial out of the news and show me what happened on video if it exists. I try to not watch the O‘Reilly’s or Maddow’s who try to lead me to their truth as I can apply my own principles and morals to get to my own truth. I read multiple papers a day. Watch BBC when I can as I find them to present a much less biased and factual accounting of events than American coverage, and avoid the overly biased online spots. I visit here and the HuffPost daily mainly for the entertainment value each has to offer me as a fiscal conservative but with big differences in my social views.
      I come to my own truth and do not look to a “talking head” go give me his truth and expect me to take it as my own.

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    • saranda
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:21pm

      Linda I am sorry that I did not really respond to your post and kind of went off on my own tangent. Fox News is not high on my list of preferred places for news. Firstly, there is very little in the way of actual news programs on when I arrive home for the evening, and secondly they present to me a point of view not news in each one hour slot dedicated to a different talking head, each with their own opinion that they present to me in as dramatic a form as they can. There is one side to information which supports the specific talking heads belief and opinion and that is not enough for me.
      I believe I can make my own decisions on what is best for me and my family, and to that end I read and educate myself endlessly. If Fox were my only source I would be a poorly informed voter and citizen.

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:07pm

    The nanny state government has created a bunch of thin skinned little toads that think that we need to cow-tow to every sect of faction of every religion that exists.
    Everyone is afraid to move or actually have an opinion about something.
    These are the same people that try and talk “gangsta” when in urban situations.
    This leads to “he who is loudest – wins”
    And we give America away….. without a shot fired or a dollar passed.

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  • JohnnyJT South Philly
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:06pm

    Journalist don’t even understand JOURNALISM

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  • angelcat
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:05pm

    Religion is a matter of faith. Most journalists have faith in nothing but themselves, money, and fame, so they cannot relate to those who believe in a God who puts no importance on money and fame and all the importance on love for Him and one’s fellow men.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:07pm

      And I want to add that the only religion that journalists go out of their way to try to cover fairly and which they seem to think is worthwhile is Islam. They seem to gush over it while they mock other religions.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:46pm

      Because islam isn’t a religion, it’s a form of government without borders designed to promote socialism taking over the world.

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  • CaptainKook
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:05pm

    Right – we need more mythology being treated as news on news boadcasts.
    NO thank ya

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    • dblaess
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:14pm

      Can we then assume that we will no longer have to listen to followers of Islam preaching about women, their place in society, jihad agains those who are not Islam, and other myths.

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:24pm

      @KooK: So I’m guessing when ABC puts Christine Ammonpour on tv you change the channel? Or the new face of radical islam that now graces MSNBC Fareek Zakharia? I mean it‘s not like they don’t openly stand up for islam or follow that faith.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:53pm

      re:”dblaess
      “Can we then assume that we will no longer have to listen to followers of Islam preaching about women, their place in society, jihad agains those who are not Islam, and other myths.”

      . You have to listen to Koranic myths no more than you have to listen to Biblical fairy tales.

      Al J Zira
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:24pm
      “@KooK: So I’m guessing when ABC puts Christine Ammonpour on tv you change the channel? Or the new face of radical islam that now graces MSNBC Fareek Zakharia? I mean it‘s not like they don’t openly stand up for islam or follow that faith.”

      You have a vivid imagination.

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  • lindathepatriot
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:05pm

    If one does not believe in God, where does his morals come from? He will do that which is right in his own eyes. No wonder the lamestream media is corrupt.

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:04pm

    Since most of the media is liberal, no.

    Unless it is the Godless Religion of Liberalism

    .

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  • Locked
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:04pm

    I’m not sure I understand the point of this. What are journalists supposed to be “understanding” about religion? Their job is to report facts and let people make up their own minds. They‘re not going to spread the message of Jesus’s love; it’s not their job.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:09pm

      agree. But its also not their job to ridicule religion either. And that happens every day.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:19pm

      Journalists CAN’T understand religion…….the Bible does NOT support social justice……anything that doesn‘t support social justice just doesn’t compute!! If they can’t understand conservatives, why on earth would you suspect they could understand religion.

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:56pm

      @Midwestmom

      I agree, but I find the issue is more what passes for “news” these days. Many “news” shows are opinions instead; many online articles are op-eds. Very few stick to facts, and instead drift into opinion. That’s not good news.

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    • hologram5
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:03pm

      Really?! They don’t even deal with FACT anymore man. Don’t you read?

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:09pm

      @Hologram

      I sure do. I try to stay away from op-eds. If I wanted someone’s opinion, I’d ask for it. I usually don’t, so instead I stay away.

      I come the theblaze because the opinions articles are interesting, and the comments even moreso. While opinions aren’t news, it is interesting to see how people take others’ opinions and use them to form their own.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:17pm

      @ locked
      equally as bad are folks who won’t / don’t take the initiative to research & educate themselves about what is broadcast as “news” in order to determine fact from opinion.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:43pm

      @LOCKED

      Please tell us what “news” shows drift in to opinion.

      There ARE a lot of “opinion” shows that deal in opinions. But they are opinion shows, and it is obvious that they are such.

      What opinion shows are trying to pass themselves off as “news”?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:32pm

      Hey Locked,

      I just re-read your reply to Hologram5.

      So which is it? Do you LIKE other peoples opinions?
      Or do you NOT like others opinions?

      You’re very deep, aren’t you?

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:04pm

    Well duh! Of course they don’t! Just watch TV sometime and you can see that! LOL.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:07pm

      I think the real question is Do Journalists Understand _________?

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:11pm

      I’ve never heard one speak nor read any articles that gave me the impression that they know anything about religion.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:19pm

      Well, the journalists who understand religion, understand religion.

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:21pm

      I think that most of the journalistic types:

      1) Find from an earlier age in their lives that there is “power in the written/oral word”
      2) Decide to go into a field of study where they see such “power”.
      3) Practice the field so as to exhibit such “power”.
      4) Finally begin to distort this “power” to fit their own agenda (ie: make the power work for them).

      Thus, in a sense, they begin to feel that they are competing against “The Written/Preached Word” for a share of the global audience.

      Because of this feeling, they tend to maximize their “distored power” and minimize the competing “Power”. And finally, Religion is seen as a threat to their own demand for attention.

      How is that for a theory?

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:21pm

      Well of course Journalists don’t understand Religion. If they went to a Liberal college for their degree they also don’t understand the truth, principles, morals, ethics, values, economics, common sense. The list could go on forever. Just look at Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddcow.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:22pm

      Heck… they don’t even understand JOURNALISM!

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    • SeasonOfReason
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:23pm

      I think a lot of people don’t understand religion

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    • 1stAmendment
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Who’s talking about religion, they know nothing!

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:35pm

      @Season

      I agree. There was actually a decent article on CNN (gasp!) the other day about commonly mis-quoted or blatantly false “Biblical” phrases, such as

      “Spare the rod, spoil the child”
      “God helps those who help themselves”
      “The Lord works in mysterious ways”
      “Pride comes before the fall”
      “This too shall pass”

      I knew all of those weren’t in the Bible, but a lot of folks have been caught thinking they were. Other inventions included saying the serpent in the Garden of Eden was actually Satan (a concept added hundreds of years after the original genesis story, according to their expert); the idea that there were three holy men who visited baby Jesus; and thinking Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

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    • joyfulmom
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:46pm

      Religion will not save anyone! What the journalist need to understand is that they are a sinner and we use the 10 commandments to do that….Most people will say they are a good person and deserve to go to heaven…So, let’s see! Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever said the Lord’s name in vain? The Bible says if you’ve even looked upon a woman with lust in your heart, you’ve already committed adultry in your heart, Have you ever looked upon a woman? Even if you’ve hated, it’s like committing murder. Have you ever stolen anything, regardless of it’s value? This is just a few of the 10 commandments and as you can see, you are in big trouble on Judgment Day! Standing before a Holy and Just God, you would be gulity and deserve hell….BUT, the GOOD NEWS is that Jesus Christ, took the sins that we deserve upon Himself and He paid the ultimate price that if you repent and turn from your sins and trust in the Lord and ask for forgiveness of sins, fall on your knees and pray for Mercy, and be saved for the wrath that is to come to all who are not clothed with Christ! May God open your eyes to the TRUTH of the gospel message!

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Journalists understand and empathize with all religions EXCEPT Christianity.AMEN

      GOD BLESS THE USA AND GOD BLESS THEM TOO.

      I support Israel

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    • Edct
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:50pm

      Obviously not, because if they did they would want to get some religion to try to save their miserable souls from eternall hell.

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    • SREGN
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:56pm

      Bravo, Joyful. Nicely done.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:24pm

      joyfulmom

      Yes… liberals have a problem with 10 laws that ensure freedom and joy but they support thousands and thousands of BS man made laws that cause oppression. Go figure….

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:35pm

      In Iran all journalists are experts in religion. If you want your news colored by a particular religion, or some denomination within a religion, I’m sure there are cable stations that will suit your needs. Or you can move to Iran.

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    • Nehemiah6.3
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:27pm

      It is so easy to look at reporters and say they are stupid or ignorant of the truth. But in truth, it is only because they are raised in a home were the truth is not taught. Where there is no law taught, then there is no accountability. The accountability rests with those of us who have been taught the truth, and to do our very best to teach our children the truth about God and Religion.

      I hope we don’t get caught up in trying to criticize only, and not teach were we can to those we have influence. In the Bible that would be like judging the mote in your neighbors eye while missing the beam in your own.
      We have a lot of work to do to change the Apathic hearts of our country, and its not going to happen over night. In fact, I’m sure, we will all learn obedience to God’s Law, even if it be by the things we suffer.

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    • avenger
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:46pm

      most journalists cannot define journalism…

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    • Amos37
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:07pm

      How could the journalist understand the beast they report on (whether political or religious) when it’s what they want their listeners or subscribers to worship? It doesn’t help that we are in the last days and the amount of false prophets and heresies are comparable to our national debt. Running rampant.

      “‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! For when I brought your forefathers out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. From the time your forefathers left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets. But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their forefathers.’
      “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:24pm

      Ha
      This has got to be the worst I have seen here. Most people do not even know what religion is. Religion kills, both physically and spiritually. If one claims a religion, denomination or denies there is a One true God they are all in the same sinking ship. We are not called to be religious but disciples, or followers, of the Creator, Jesus Christ.
      Going to a church makes you as much of christian as standing in a garage makes you an automobile. Religion clouds and blocks your ability to clearly speak and hear from God.

      “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
      Matthew 6:32-34 (in Context)

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    • hwyphd1
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 8:50am

      Most journalist are communist and do not believe in Christians Jews although they seem to support the muslem extremist with no problems.Maybe they fear them…

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