Have we mentioned GetReligion to you yet, and how...

11:12 am - Mon, Aug 27, 2012: 10 notes

Have we mentioned GetReligion to you yet, and how much we love it? It’s a blog that analyzes media coverage of religion — often showing how mediocre even the best journalistic outlets can be at providing good, unbiased, and factually informative stories about religious issues.

Take this piece from last week (“Endangered species: abstinent New Yorkers,” August 23). At the top, Bobby Ross, Jr. writes:

On this week’s episode of Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom,” we’ll take you inside the world of an endangered species: young humans “living the abstinent lifestyle in New York.”

I kid. I kid.

But a New York Times feature on conservative religious types waiting on sex until marriage (a la Tim Tebow) has a safari-type feel — as if the newspaper is introducing readers to zoo animals. The largely clinical portrayal of “chaste Christians” lacks any real spiritual or religious depth.

And so on.

If you think your religious literacy isn’t up-to-speed, or you like finding room for improvement in journalistic writing, GetReligion is the blog for you.