Welcome to the first installment of GetGetReligion, an occasional look at GetReligion, the daily review of mainstream religion coverage that is dedicated to the proposition that "the press...just doesn't get religion." Written by Godbeat graybeard Terry Mattingly and a shifting cast of younger associates, GetReligion is bankrolled by conservative moneybags and Mattingly pal Roberta Ahmanson (a sometime MSM religion reporter herself). So while it loves finding missed religion angles and tosses the odd laurel along with the brickbats, the axe GetReligion perpetually grinds is that when it comes to religion, the press is guilty guilty guilty of secular liberal bias.
The question we ask here at GetGet is, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?--or, loosely translated, What's that damn dog barking about anyway? From time to time someone like Commonweal's Grant Gallicho will be sufficiently annoyed to administer a slap across the snout. The response is usually along the lines of: We're just pointing out the journalistic deficiencies, not spinning the story ourselves. Well, let's see.
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