Jerusalem - Reading American news online, the current Israeli "crisis" seems to have started last week when, during Vice President Biden's visit here, the Netanyahu government announced it would build 1600 settler housing units in East Jerusalem. Since new construction would violate Israeli promises to the U.S. -- and chill...

Usually a newspaper is just a newspaper. But other times, it points to something beyond its ephemeral self. Sunday's New York Times "Week in Review" is a case in point, encapsulating the problem of and solution to two of journalism's current quandaries. How to make readers care and how best...

The Burmese junta's brutal smack down of Buddhist monks and civilian protesters continues to headline American media outlets. But for a deeper, fuller picture of events and the central role of the country's religious men and women, you'll need to track down international sources.

For the particulars...

Now that President Bush has imposed sanctions on the Burmese junta, the growing protests against the dictatorship -- and the galvanizing role Buddhist monks have played in mobilizing public outrage -- should get the coverage it deserves from the American media.

Until recently, domestic news outlets have...

All the media brouhaha around John McCain: Is he or isn't he a Baptist, and yet so little attention to the Republican candidate who is the real deal. Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and second place winner of the Ames Iowa straw poll is a Southern Baptist preacher...

With its recent report "Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media," Media Matters confirms what some news consumers previously suspected: Press coverage of religion tilts right. The media watchdog's survey reveals that mainstream television and newspapers quote, mention and interview conservative religious leaders nearly...

Jerry Falwell liked to credit the Rev. Martin Luther King for his political conversion. A Southern fundamentalist, Falwell initially esteemed heavenly rewards over earthly ones, but by the 1970s, he was done waiting for the sweet by-and-by. The Supreme Court's decisions to ban school prayer and Bible reading had been...