Tmatt goes after On Faith (again)

Terry Mattingly over at GetReligion is going after the Washington Post’s On Faith blog -again. This time, he’s following a critique by Andrew Walsh up at Trinity College’s Religion in the News journal that picks apart On Faith for having too much opinion, not enough news. The money quote from the Religion in the News […]

Terry Mattingly over at GetReligion is going after the Washington Post’s On Faith blog -again. This time, he’s following a critique by Andrew Walsh up at Trinity College’s Religion in the News journal that picks apart On Faith for having too much opinion, not enough news.

The money quote from the Religion in the News folks:

“It’s odd to empanel such an array of characters as omnibus experts, as if they all had worthwhile opinions about every conceivable religion question that might come up. At the heart of old-school journalism is the conviction that newspapers are obliged to find and quote genuine experts who have real knowledge of the matter at hand. That seems to have gone by the wayside on-line, where opinion is all.”


Can’t say that I disagree with that.

TMatt’s main beef with On Faith is that for a newspaper with all of the resources and staff as the WaPo, that there should actually be some news, and not just opinion, generated for readers. Can’t say I disagree with that, either, but I’ll let TMatt handle this one.

Donate to Support Independent Journalism!

Donate Now!