In the Godforsaken Wilderness: On Bullshit News
In the Godforsaken Wilderness is a blog by Patrick Blanchfield being published in the wake of the 2016 presidential...
Service Announcement for Journos
A friendly reminder to all of us at the start of this new election cycle: "Pro-life" means much, much...
Who Killed Pat Tillman?
As far as we can tell, New York Press columnist Matt Taibbi doesn’t give a damn about religion. But that doesn’t stop him...
Everyone's a Critic
New: The Revealer presents a set of sorta-secular links to mainstream media criticism. Recommendations welcome.
Everybody's Jew
I Was a Passion News Source. By Laurel Snyder It’s a strange thing, the hunger for public statements, testimonials. Periodically, an important...
Get It? Got It. Good.
The Revealer welcomes some competition in the religion-press-critique business from GetReligion.org, a new blog edited by Doug LeBlanc and written, for the most...
Framing Power
Maybe religion reporters aren’t so stupid, after all. By Diane Winston I understand Chris Smith’s frustration with the secular...
What's in a Name?
“Satanic hysteria” is such an interesting phrase, with so many possibilities. The coffee clerk who brought it up at...
Getting It All Wrong
The other day The Revealer was on a radio show with an otherwise very clever journalist who noted that far more...
What We Don't Know, and Why
Religiously Ignorant Journalists By Christian Smith Today I received a phone message from a journalist from a major Dallas...
Priesthood of the Press
From Jay Rosen‘s “Journalism is Itself a Religion” — a new Revealer feature: What results from the “relative godlessness of mainstream journalists?” Or, in a more...
Ultimate Concerns
Nicholas Kristof is at it again. Sometime in the last couple of years, The New York Times columnist found God. Not in...
Ch-Ch-Changes
Vanity Fair‘s Christopher Hitchens takes a loyalty oath; The New Republic‘s Jeffrey Rosen considers conversion; and The New York Times‘ David Brooks plays the part of the...
Uncovering Islam
Does the press’s coverage of Islam actually cover-up the complexities of a far-from monolithic faith? Why is Islam —...
Does History have Meaning?
The media elite answer. The Revealer reports. You decide! By Jeff Sharlet Does history have meaning? And if so, what does...
The "God Gulf" at The New York Times
In a bold attempt to coin a new catchphrase, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Timeswrites of the “God gulf” between liberal and conservative...
Bad Medicine
“Is Religion Good Medicine?” asks the cover line on the latest Newsweek. It’s certainly good cover fodder, as is health....