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After 20 years, Terry Mattingly bids farewell to GetReligion
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“For the last 20 years, Mattingly has been best known as editor of GetReligion.org — a website dedicated to promoting and critiquing religion coverage in the mainstream media.” - RNS
Pew: Broad agreement in U.S. – even among partisans – on which news outlets are part of the ‘mainstream media’
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“Overall, a majority of Americans consider seven of these outlets to be part of the mainstream media.
Thanksgiving Is Not a Lie
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“It’s true that debunkers can score some easy points. The term ‘Pilgrims’ wasn’t popularized until later. They didn’t wear dour clothes. They didn’t consider their iconic gathering in 1621 a formal thanksgiving… But the basic contours of the holiday are recognizable in that long-ago event.” - N.Review
NPR's coverage of abortion is pregnant with bias
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“As a reminder of how obscenely biased taxpayer-supported National Public Radio really is, see the notice its honchos sent to its staff last week about how to use terminology with regard to abortion.” - Washington Examiner
Gallup poll: how Americans really feel about the mainstream media
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“’Most U.S. adults, including more than 9 in 10 Republicans, say they personally have lost trust in the news media in recent years. At the same time, 69 percent of those who have lost trust say that trust can be restored,’ the analysis says, noting that the biggest criticisms were lack of accuracy and bias.” - W. Times
And Now for the News
From Dispensational Publishing House; used by permission.
What is your view of the news media? If you are like most people, your answer does not exude confidence.
According to Gallup:
Four in 10 Americans say they have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust and confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012. Prior to 2004, slight majorities of Americans said they trusted the mass media, such as newspapers, TV and radio. (Rebecca Riffkin, “Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at Historical Low”)
I spent 14 years working for a major news organization in the state of Wisconsin as a newspaper reporter and editor. I appreciate so many things that I gained from that experience, apart from which I would be lacking in a number of valuable areas. I do not claim to have seen it all—or really to have any secrets to share that you have not already figured out if you, like me, are a connoisseur of media (or, to put it in the vernacular, a news junkie). I do, however, have a few observations about the current state of the news media—and, especially, how we as Bible-believing Christians should consume media—that I think are worth sharing. Here they are, in no particular order:
