In a way, this was a GetReligion 101 mini-seminar, in terms of talking about the goals of this blog and why we think the mainstream press is – when it comes to religion news – worthy of serious criticism, as well as praise.
As you would expect, in a chat about that topic recorded this past week, the whole subject of the death of The New York Times Public Editor slot did come up, as discussed in this post ("Disturbance in the Journalism Force? New York Times spikes its public-editor post").
But the discussion went all over the place, with explanations of many topics that are familiar to GetReligion readers.
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