The late Peter Jennings of ABC World News Tonight was a remarkably candid man, when it came to talking about the perils of asking mainstream journalists to cover religion news and trends. I only met him once, face to face, during an Oct. 5, 1993, event at Columbia University sponsored by the Freedom Forum. It focused on efforts to improve mainstream religion reporting, of course, and Jennings was on the hunt for a professional that he thought could handle that job at ABC News. That’s the start of a long, long story. We had several telephone conversations about that project.
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