{"id":117,"date":"2011-02-27T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T08:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/activistfaith\/2011\/02\/how-to-read-the-news-daniel-darling.html"},"modified":"2011-02-27T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T08:39:25","slug":"how-to-read-the-news-daniel-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/activistfaith\/2011\/02\/how-to-read-the-news-daniel-darling.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Read the News [Daniel Darling]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great guest post from Activist Faith<\/a> co-founder Daniel Darling<\/a> and author of iFaith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-Dillon<\/i><\/p>\n

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T<\/span><\/span>he
\nnews comes fast and furious these days, from a variety of sources.
\nOnline, on the phone, someone texting you, Twitter, Facebook, cable
\nnews. We’re long from the days when news came from three TV sources, the
\nall-news radio station, and your daily newspaper. Truthfully, I’m
\ngetting most of my news these days from Twitter. I follow a few
\njournalists in areas of interest, such as politics, sports, the church,
\nand publishing.<\/p>\n

In many ways it’s good, keeping the media accountable and revealing
\nthe hidden biases. But in other ways, it’s difficult to process the
\nnews, because it seems, increasingly, to be delivered by competing
\nideologies.<\/p>\n

So how should people of faith read, interpret, and process the news?
\nI’m not sure how you do it, but here’s a few steps I take when something
\nbreaks:<\/p>\n

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