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When Journalists Don't Get Religion
Oxford University Press
November 2008
On Sale: November 14, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0195374371
EAN: 9780195374377
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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. However, 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. These stories range from the
2004 U.S. presidential elections to Iran, Iraq, and the
papal succession. In each case the author demonstrates how
the story might have been more effectively reported and
concludes with specific suggestions for journalist. The
authors include both scholars and experienced news analysts.
Although it will be of particular interest to people of
faith, the book offers all readers an interesting and
balanced analysis of the news media's uneasy relationship
with religion and religious issues.
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