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Blind spot : when journalists don't get religion / edited by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green Ahmanson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and the press.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 220 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This text 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.
- Contents:
- Background
- Introduction / Paul Marshall
- God is winning : religion in global politics / Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft
- Case studies
- Religion and terrorism : misreading Bin Laden / Paul Marshall
- Decades of misreporting Iran and Iraq / Michael Rubin
- Religion and international human rights / Allen D. Hertzke
- "Misunderestimating" religion in the 2004 presidential campaign / C. Danielle Vinson and James L. Guth
- The media and the popes / Amy Welborn
- Mel Gibson's Vhrist : the passion of the press / Jeremy Lott
- Getting it right
- Getting religion in the newsroom / Terry Mattingly
- Principles for getting it right / Roberta Green Ahmanson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-970569-0
- OCLC:
- 1336402922
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