When doctors pronounced the Rev. Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. dead at 12:40 p.m. EST Tuesday, I was sitting in the departures lounge of the Key West airport in Florida with a dozen other journalists who had just attended a three-day conference on religion and politics.
As word spread --a producer for National Public Radio got the first call-- my colleagues scrambled to their cell phones, BlackBerries and laptops in preparation to write stories and, as was the case with a...
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