Washington Times Where a little learning would be unusual
* Religion_Belief<https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/religion_belief/> [The New York Times building in New York is seen here on Oct. 10, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE **]<https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/ap_16126763866910jpg/> The New York Times building in New York is seen here on Oct. 10, 2012. (Associated Press) ** FILE ** more ><https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/ap_16126763866910jpg/> Print By Wesley Pruden<https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/wesley-pruden/> - The Washington Times - Monday, March 4, 2019 ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s too bad so many of the reporters and correspondents of the mainstream/legacy media never went to Sunday school. Not for what that might have done for their immortal souls (many of them don’t believe they have one, anyway), but for their educations, which many of them have yet to complete. What they don’t understand is lethal, and on occasion can be deadly. What they don’t “get” most is religious faith, or belief, and the two are not always the same. Many in the press regard such faith as something infuriating, like belief in a resurrection, and think that serious people everywhere agree with them. Some editors do get it, and despair that some who work under them do not understand why “getting it” is even important. Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, is one who does, and he set out to educate his reporters several years ago, not to be converts, but to be competent in their trade. “I want to make sure that we are much more creative about beats out in the country so that we understand the anger and disconnectedness that people feel,” he told an interviewer in 2016. “And I think I use religion as an example because I was raised Catholic in New Orleans. I think that the New York-based, and Washington-based, probably, media powerhouses don’t quite get religion. We don’t get religion. We don’t get the role of religion in people’s lives. And I think we can do much, much better. And I think there are things that we can be more creative about to understand the country.” Mr. Baquet did not get a standing ovation from his colleagues in the news business. I leave it to his readers to judge whether he succeeded in doing anything lasting about the press dereliction that is obvious to nearly everybody. But he gets points for recognizing that obvious truth, that if you don’t “get” religion you don’t “get” America. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
