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Thursday September 27, 2007
Media:
As the Religion Newswriters Association meets today through Saturday at the Menger Hotel for its annual convention, its 560 members face an environment in which many religious leaders are suspicious of journalists’ attitude toward faith; many journalists handle religion stories with inadequate knowledge; and declining advertising revenues have killed “faith and values” sections in newspapers including the Dallas Morning News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Tuesday August 28, 2007
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A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.
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Monday August 20, 2007
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Christiane Amanpour is on vacation in France. Sort of. The CNN star also is putting the finishing touches on a six-hour documentary airing next week about the often volatile mix of politics and religion.
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Tuesday August 14, 2007
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The CNN reporter’s three-part series on the subject, scheduled to air next week on the cable news channel, looks at Jews, Christians and Muslims who have aggressively brought their religious faith into the political arena.
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Thursday June 21, 2007
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The show, tentatively named Religious Indian Idol, will be an interactive musical talent contest between teenagers from universities and religious colleges. Instead of pop tunes, they will perform devotional songs from the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain faiths.
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Wednesday December 6, 2006
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Inside KFI-AM, the face of this Jesus looks nothing like familiar images of Christ. Bald and goateed sans moustache, he wears a hoop earring and bears the tattoos of a rebellious youth.
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Tuesday October 24, 2006
Media:
New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, issued today, while the most repressive countries are still the same ones.
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Some poor countries, such as Mauritania and Haiti, improved their record in a global press freedom index this year, while France, the United States and Japan slipped further down the scale of 168 countries rated, the group Reporters Without Borders said yesterday.
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Friday September 22, 2006
Media:
Channel 4 is to broadcast a documentary showing a human corpse being hung on a cross to depict Christ’s suffering. Anatomist Gunther von Hagens will use a real body to show how people died when crucified in the 90-minute film.
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Sunday August 20, 2006
Media:
It’s no accident that “amazing” is the reflexive superlative of the Internet age. Amazement — great wonder tempered by perplexity and even disorientation — is a deep feature of the Web; its users seek it, cultivate it and register it on message boards.
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Sunday July 23, 2006
Media:
Reality TV has long relied on big prizes to motivate risk taking, back stabbing and other engaging behaviors that keep viewers watching from week to week.
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Monday June 19, 2006
Media:
Can religion and reason peacefully coexist? From a scan of the headlines it doesn't seem so. The world appears polarized, incapable of even agreeing to disagree on matters of faith.
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Monday May 22, 2006
Media:
Attracting audiences to religious programmes has always been a challenge. But an injection of reality television seems to be providing the answer. Sally Turner reports
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Friday April 14, 2006
Media:
For many, miracles are distant legends. Others believe they are real events in the here and now. Here radio and TV presenter Roger Bolton recounts his sceptic's attempt to reconcile the two.
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Tuesday February 28, 2006
Media:
Faith-based business is big business. That much was clear from a day at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.
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Wednesday January 25, 2006
Media:
Controversial show not yet officially canceled; Drama drew low ratings, protests
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Monday January 9, 2006
Media:
NBC series generates a controversy
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Saturday December 10, 2005
Media:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC has given a script commitment to a one-hour drama centering on an expert in "deprogramming" people.
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Friday November 25, 2005
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BEVERLY HILLS - After spending much of her life as the subject of interviews, Naomi Judd is turning the tables.
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Friday May 20, 2005
Media:
New York (AP) -- After numerous allegations about liberal bias at the broadcast networks, an intriguing hourlong "20/20" grants airtime for five religious conservatives to explain their belief in Christianity's central miracle, the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave.
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Tuesday January 25, 2005
Media:
The bible of rock 'n' roll, Rolling Stone magazine, will run an ad for the Holy Bible next month — the same ad it rejected two weeks ago for its "spiritual message."
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Monday January 10, 2005
Media:
Security has been stepped up at the London theatre staging Jerry Springer: the Opera as the controversy over the BBC's decision to broadcast the production intensified yesterday.
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Monday November 22, 2004
Media:
The Jerusalem Post, an English-language newspaper born in Israel in 1932 as The Palestine Post, is about to get new owners who are betting they can rebuild its circulation by reaching an international readership of Jews and fundamentalist Christians.
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Wednesday October 27, 2004
Media:
East Asia and Middle East have worst press freedom records
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Thursday September 2, 2004
Media:
NEW YORK -- Faiza worships five times a day, while Rhianna is as likely to believe in God as in the Easter Bunny. Kristin prays too, but to the God and the Goddess.
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