Media

Health care summit: Pros and cons

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 February 2010

The embattled president is taking the embattled debate over health care reform to the American people, which he promised to do throughout his campaign but failed to follow through on until the Democrats lost a pivotal Senate seat. He was called out on that lack of transparency and abject lack of bipartisanship which he also promised in his presidency, so he called this upcoming health care summit for Democrats to meet with Republicans and it will be televised. He is a pro at turning crisis into opportunity, to apply a phrase his chief of staff likes to use.

The ‘Bush billboard’

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 February 2010

The news is not that the ‘Miss Me Yet?’ sign is out there on the highway, generating a crush of commentary in the media and carping in the blogosphere. It's that it took two months to be noticed...

They already went for broke

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 January 2010

The Chicago Sun-Times filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and that wasn’t a surprise to those of us who found little in it worth reading besides the Sports section. But now they’re doing this odd thing, mixing bold-faced and unabashed abortion advocacy with a principled call for free and fair speech by pro-life advocates.

Tell the folks, let them decide

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 January 2010

The Minneapolis Star Tribune actually covered the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life rally on the anniversary of Roe this year. That’s remarkable, right there.

Headlines you aren’t seeing

Sheila Liaugminas | 12 December 2009

Christian churches are under attack at an epidemic rate right now. Why aren’t we hearing about this?

Consistency for some?

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 November 2009

Religion reporters do not have the same aptitude for their subject as….say…..business or economy reporters, who have to know the language of the markets and translate it for those who don’t.

Media outside their comfort zone

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 November 2009

They tend to be fine with insulting and finding fault with Christians. But everyone else’s beliefs are out of the bounds of serious scrutiny in our diverse and multi-cultural society.

He gave the New York Times a chance

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 October 2009

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan submitted an op-ed piece to the Times, the paper that claims to run ”All the news that’s fit to print”. But the Times didn’t see Archbishop Dolan’s opinion piece as fit to print.

Media introspection?

Sheila Liaugminas | 19 October 2009

I didn’t want to take even a moment to comment on the ‘balloon boy’ affair at all. Even though (maybe especially because) it’s so hard to ignore...

What to call the media

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 September 2009

Odd….three times in one day, I’ve heard or read references to the need to stop using the term ‘mainstream media’.

Advice for reporters

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 September 2009

Maybe ‘religious right’ doesn’t quite describe the alliance of faith-based people working for moral social policies.

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