![]() ![]() ![]() And it joined with other litigants in suing the state Legislature over its refusal to release records regarding misconduct investigations. It intervened in a lawsuit to oppose efforts to shield the names of businesses with COVID-19 cases. It fought recalcitrant officials to do records-based reporting on COVID-19 in long-term care facilities and meatpacking plants. Media Openness Award (“Mopee”): Milwaukee Journal SentinelĮven in tough times, the state’s largest paper blazed a trail for open government. All are predicated on upholding the public’s right to know. Several of this years’ awards are related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced wholesale changes in how government officials conduct the public’s business. Biden - four months before Election Day and religion angles abound” by Bobby Ross, Jr., at Religion Unplugged.For the 15th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is presenting its Openness in Government Awards, or Opees, recognizing outstanding achievement in the cause of transparency. White Jesus: I didn’t include the full Religion News Service headline (“How Jesus became white - and why it’s time to cancel that”) because I liked Emily McFarlan Miller’s fascinating story much better than the headline.Īs I told RNS editor-in-chief Bob Smietana, “Old-school Bobby just wishes it had a ‘SOME SAY’ in it.” I preferred the headline that the Washington Post used on Miller’s story: “How an iconic painting of Jesus as a white man was distributed around the world.”īut I couldn’t agree more with Post religion writer Sarah Pulliam Bailey’s note: “not to miss the forest for the trees, I thought the story was really interesting!”įor more on the subject, Christianity Today’s Ted Olsen points to a Bonnie Kristian column in The Week that contends, “The white Jesus debate is more complicated than you think.”Ĭontinue reading “ Trump vs. “Reporting this profile of her, I found a more complicated story.”Ģ. People love to circulate gotcha videos of things she’s said in the past,” Green said on Twitter. “Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s White House press secretary, has been dismissed as an opportunist, hypocrite, and fool. We might need to create a special feature just to showcase the uber-talented Green’s work each week. The temptation of Kayleigh McEnany : For the second week in a row, The Atlantic’s Emma Green makes this list. (Be sure to read, too, Terry Mattingly’s GetReligion analysis of this story, making the case that the Times ignores doctrine to focus on politics.)ġ. Nicholas Casey, a national politics reporter for the New York Times, travels to Alabama to highlight a Baptist church touched by differing opinions over the Trump era.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writers Bill Glauber, Molly Beck and Annysa Johnson report on Vice President Mike Pence’s focus on religious faith in a campaign stop in battleground Wisconsin.Jeff Sharlet, in a piece for Vanity Fair, goes inside what the magazine characterizes as “the cult of Trump,” where “his rallies are church and he is the Gospel.”.Isaac Chotiner, staff writer for The New Yorker, interviews Albert Mohler about “How the head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary came around to Trump.”.Gabby Orr, White House reporter for Politico, writes that Trump allies “see a mounting threat: Biden’s rising evangelical support.”.With Election Day four-plus months away, religion angles - no surprise! - abound.Īmong the most interesting pieces of the last week: The president even gave Keaton - and all of the news media - a shoutout.Īs you may have heard, the symbolic relaunch of Trump’s re-election campaign drew an underwhelming crowd of about 6,200 to a Tulsa arena.Īlready, some are pointing to polls that show Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by a wide margin. I followed developments via social media, including tweets by my son Keaton Ross, a reporter for Oklahoma Watch. President Donald Trump came to my home state of Oklahoma last weekend, and I kept my social distance (read: stayed in my living room). ![]()
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