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Pew: Republicans, young adults now nearly as likely to trust info from social media as from national news outlets

By Filings on Mon, 10/21/24
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“Today, 37% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they have a lot of or some trust in the information that comes from social media sites. This is nearly on par with the 40% of Republicans who express this level of trust in national news organizations.” - Pew

About half of TikTok users under 30 say they use it to keep up with politics, news

By Filings on Fri, 08/23/24
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“Our survey explored various reasons people might use TikTok and other social media platforms. Young TikTok users stand out from their older peers on several of these reasons” - Pew

Some thoughts on that Newsweek story on Christian colleges

By Filings on Tue, 08/06/24
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“Wherever one comes down on this issue, it is clear that evangelical colleges have every legal right to hire faculty that meet their standards on sexuality.” - Current

Meet the Man on a Mission to Improve Religion Coverage in America

By Filings on Tue, 06/11/24
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“Josh Good hosts big conversations about religion and public life through the Faith Angle Forum” - Deseret News

Pew: More than half of Americans are following election news closely, and many are already worn out

By Filings on Tue, 05/28/24
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“About six-in-ten U.S. adults (62%) already say they are worn out by so much coverage of the campaign and candidates, while 35% say they like seeing a lot of this coverage.” - Pew

Dear Associated Press editors: The story of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter includes lots of faith

By Filings on Tue, 11/21/23
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“When former President Jimmy Carter describes his life he almost always mentions each of these subjects — his wife, Rosalynn, their shared Christian faith, community service and the Bible.” - GetReligion

A Simple Way to Filter the Daily News

By Filings on Mon, 11/06/23
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“The viewpoints I encountered on the radio were too extreme. … I signed up to receive one daily news summary from an apparently reasonable right-of-center organization (The Morning Dispatch) and one daily news summary from an apparently reasonable left-of-center news organization (Axios).” - Kenneth Berding

On Bart Barber and journalistic sloppiness – “The abused theological term was ‘fundamentalist.’”

By Filings on Fri, 09/29/23
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“The problem is that religious authorities — the voices journalists quote – keep pinning this label on others. Thus, one expert’s ‘evangelical’ is another’s ‘fundamentalist.’” - GetReligion

Concerning Pope Francis, hockey, Pride night and putting ‘scare quotes’ around ‘beliefs’

By Filings on Wed, 02/01/23
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Reuters headline: “Rangers back right to ‘beliefs’ after Pride Night jerseys absent from warm-ups.” …What happened here? - GetReligion

Story of the Year: Rise of the 'Nons' – put Them Alongside Nones, NIPs, Nonverts, etc.

By Filings on Fri, 12/16/22
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“…nons? They’re nondenominational Protestants whose local congregations are wholly self-governing and independent of traditional denominations” - GetReligion

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