By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Assertions that Anders Breivik, the man who killed 93 people while on a bombing and shooting spree in Oslo, Norway last week, is a Fundamentalist Christian not only appears to be a media fabrication, but there is also some evidence that the killer’s Facebook page declaring him to be a Christian conservative was tampered with.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While the country reels under a massive burden of debt, a new undercover video by filmmaker James O’Keefe shows government waste in action as federal employees coach two men who describe themselves as Russian drug smugglers on how to qualify for Medicaid.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
It’s a classic case of “gotcha journalism” gone awry. The media frenzy over the release of thousands of e-mails from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin uncovered nothing incriminating but plenty of evidence that she was a hard-working civil servant. And among the stash was one e-mail about her son, Trig, that some say could alter America’s perception of her forever.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
“Never let an Easter go by without sticking a thumb in the eye of Christians” must be a secret adage among the mainstream media, which could explain why Showtime chose the holy season of Lent to launch “The Borgia’s,” a 10-part miniseries about a corrupt and licentious pope and his scandal-ridden family.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While reporting on an Ohio bill that would forbid abortions after a baby’s heart has begun to beat, MSNBC guest host Cenk Uygur said if a fetus was able to speak, it would oppose restrictions on a woman’s right to choose.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of the mainstream media’s desperate attempts to link Tucson shooter Jared Loughner with “right-wing” politics, a mounting pile of evidence is pointing in the opposite direction.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Many Hindus in the American Indian population are offended by the latest cover of Newsweek Magazine, which features President Barack Obama as the Hindu deity known as Lord Shiva.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New York City’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan is once again publicly rebuking The New York Times for its blatant anti-Catholic bias, this time over its gushing reviews of an offensive art exhibit and play that profane Catholicism.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While speaking at the Religion Newswriters Association this weekend, Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput chastised the press for its ill-informed coverage of Christianity and defended his reasons for refusing all interview requests from the New York Times.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The mainstream media are applauding an episode of NBC‘s “Friday Night Lights” in which a pregnant high-school girl decides to have an abortion after a high school principal advises her to consider only her own interests without any mention of the life of the child.
