Blind spot
Subtitle: when journalists don't get religion
By: edited by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green Ahmanson.
Contributors: Marshall, Paul A., 1948-; Gilbert, Lela.; Green, Roberta.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780195374377; 9780195374360
Subjects: Religion and the press
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." "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."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Background; title: Introduction / Paul Marshall; title: God is winning : religion in global politics / Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft; title: Case studies; title: Religion and terrorism : misreading Bin Laden / Paul Marshall; title: Decades of misreporting Iran and Iraq / Michael Rubin; title: Religion and international human rights / Allen D. Hertzke; title: "Misunderestimating" religion in the 2004 presidential campaign / C. Danielle Vinson and James L. Guth; title: The media and the popes / Amy Welborn; title: Mel Gibson's Vhrist : the passion of the press / Jeremy Lott; title: Getting it right; title: Getting religion in the newsroom / Terry Mattingly; title: Principles for getting it right / Roberta Green Ahmanson.