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Article: The ten suggestions? The `Times' does the decalogue. (Of Several Minds).(New York Times series on the Ten Commandments)
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- January 31, 2003
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It is a common complaint that religion is not dealt with well in the media, which, when it doesn't just plain get things wrong, tends to concentrate on either the dullest institutional aspects of religion ("Southern Baptists Get New Head") or with scandal (you know what). Both the dull and scandalous stories deserve coverage, but the way in which religion really affects the lives of people in a country that is the most religiously diverse, and religiously active, on Earth, is almost never mentioned.
This has been blamed on the fact that those involved in reporting tend not to be religious themselves. That may have something to do with it, but it hardly explains ...