There's a hole out there in journalism world and, for decades, writers and editors have been falling into it. Or maybe it's a blind spot or an invisible wall. Pick a metaphor, any metaphor. They just don't know what to do with it.
All available surveys indicate that reader interest in the subject is high.
Major religion stories receive high levels of response via calls, mail and ratings. Year after year, stories rooted in religious and moral issues place high in polls to determine the year's most important global and national trends and events. Do the math. Yet even a quick glance of research linked to news values will find evidence that religion remains one of, if not the, most poorly covered major subject in American life. There is another side of this issue.