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Headed for socialised health care?
Sheila Liaugminas | 23 March 2010
Even avoiding the usual sources of polemics in the political debate over the Democrats’ health care legislation, one continually encounters dramatic predictions of its consequences. Like this U.S. News & World Report piece proclaiming the U.S. is headed toward socialised medicine.
Social justice under fire
Sheila Liaugminas | 18 March 2010
Somewhere along the way, we fell into a false dichotomy between ”the peace and social justice crowd” and “the pro-life crowd” in the Catholic Church and among other Christians (as if the Gospel informing Christianity is not both/and instead of either/or) . That divide has only intensified since at least the years when many Catholics took up with fervor the preaching of then-Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Joseph Bernardin in what was best known as ‘the seamless garment’ approach to social justice.
Media praise South Dakota’s lone abortionist
Sheila Liaugminas | 03 March 2010
Specifically, the Washington Post was responsible for this jaw-dropper. For anyone who has followed the groundbreaking work of pregnancy help centers, pro-life advocates and conscientous legislators in South Dakota over the past few years, WaPo’s praise for the bravery of the state’s only abortionist was astonishingly clueless.
The Summit and the Fall
Sheila Liaugminas | 01 March 2010
Most of the media ignored last Thursday’s health care summit because, frankly, the president and top Democrats didn’t come off so well, and it didn’t achieve its purpose. Was it a waste of time?
‘The persistent issue of abortion’
Sheila Liaugminas | 25 February 2010
The pivotal Washington health care summit is about many things and much of it is political posturing. Maybe most. By both parties. What’s getting little attention is the persistent issue of abortion at the core of both House and Senate versions, and how the policians in Congress are handling it.
Teed off
Sheila Liaugminas | 24 February 2010
Though it was much-anticipated and rather heavily promoted in the media, I made no note of the Tiger Woods press conference scheduled to televise his first public statement since his scandalous affairs broke last November. But an interesting thing happened.....
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.
Tebow ad consequences
Sheila Liaugminas | 12 February 2010
Before the Super Bowl even happened last weekend, we all know the public debate over it whipped up into a heated controversy and abortion activists joined forces to contest it and try to have CBS yank the Tim and Pam Tebow ad from the commercial lineup. So just the leak that it would air generated that media frenzy and very public debate. That’s the beauty of this whole episode...
Winner
Sheila Liaugminas | 12 February 2010
You don't have to love (appreciate, or even understand) American style football to enjoy the beauty of its perfect victory. After one of the best Super Bowls ever, its glow and joy is still lingering, beyond the borders of New Orleans or Louisiana.
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...
Exposing media fraud (easy to do)
Sheila Liaugminas | 05 February 2010
The growing movement of pro-life advocates who flow into Washington each January on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade for events culminating in the March for Life have stopped expecting the media to actually notice their swelling numbers and hear their voices. They’re taking coverage of the event directly to the people.
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
How to read the news
Sheila Liaugminas | 24 January 2010
When a ‘newspaper’ isn’t
Sheila Liaugminas | 24 January 2010
On Friday, January 22, the Chicago Tribune did not mention that it
was the 37th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision nor that
for the past 36 years the March for Life has been held on that day on
the Mall of Washington as a strong and growing cultural resistence to
that dubious Supreme Court decision.
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?
Glossary for media usage
Sheila Liaugminas | 04 December 2009
That the major media have redefined words beyond their original meaning is not news, though it would be to them, if only they got it.
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.
Soap opera sells
Sheila Liaugminas | 23 November 2009
That’s what they’re saying on tv news about Sarah Palin.
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.
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