Journalistic blind spots and the ‘centrist-to-liberal’ Christian
In discussions of religion in the contemporary media, pundits tend to oversimplify the range of Christian perspectives. In this article which first appeared in ReligionDispatches, Mark Hulsether argues that we need to listen to voices across the entire religious spectrum.
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Media cooperation in South Asia
As the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation enters its 23rd year, relations between member countries remain less than ideal. Sevanti Ninan argues that media organisations can play a powerful role in fostering regional cooperation, promoting peace, and countering jingoistic media coverage.
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The ethics of representation
Earlier this year, the National Union of Journalists in UK had called on its members to “help nail asylum myths”, following concern over some reporters’ loose use of language on immigration issues. Ryan Hooper revisits the issue.
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Behind the crisis of trust
The British media’s treatment of politics as a game played by self-serving — if not corrupt — people has created a significant crisis of trust in recent decades. Professor Barry Richards sees such cynical journalism as an effect of the emotional dysfunctions of a tribal party system.
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Sympathy for the devil
In covering the story behind the story of Osama bin Laden, Peter L Bergen has left us grappling with some inconvenient ethical issues. Dan Hogan draws on the works of literary journalists such as Capote and Bowden and philosopher Grayling to answer the ‘unaskable’: can a 9/11, a Hiroshima, be justified?
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The Cronenberg approach
The idea of using literary texts to illuminate film is not new. But there remains a stubborn Leavisite tendency that implicitly values literary writings as superior on the grounds of being the more established art form. Mark Browning examines Canadian director David Cronenberg’s works in this context.
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The Church and Oprah
At the heart of a YouTube-led controversy stands Oprah Winfrey, one of the world’s most popular media figures, charged with threatening Christianity. In this article which first appeared in ReligionDispatches, Gary Laderman says there’s every reason to be concerned about the Church of Oprah. Because it’s part of a larger competing religious culture: celebrity worship.
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Online (+ print) = future
Print will fall and online will rise and rise. In five years most journalists will produce multi-media content. But quality of journalism may not improve… What 700 editors and newspaper executives across 120 countries said in the second Newsroom Barometer Survey.
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