{"id":934,"date":"2007-05-28T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/duane-shank-dissecting-daily-digest.html"},"modified":"2007-05-28T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T09:09:00","slug":"duane-shank-dissecting-daily-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/duane-shank-dissecting-daily-digest.html","title":{"rendered":"Duane Shank: Dissecting the Daily Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine months, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/index.cfm?action=sojomail.home\">Daily Digest<\/a> is now being received by more than 20,000 people. So, I thought I\u2019d solicit some reader opinion.<\/p>\n<p>First an explanation. I use the following U.S. newspapers that cover the spectrum: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/\">The Washington Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\">The Boston Globe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\">USA Today<\/a>, <\/em>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/\"><em>The Christian Science Monitor<\/em> <\/a>\u2013 and others if specific stories come to my attention. For an international take, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>. For the Mideast, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/\">Haaretz<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\">al Jazeera<\/a>. The news I try to cover coincides with Sojourners\/Call to Renewal\u2019s platform \u2013 war\/peace, poverty and budget priorities, the environment, life issues, marriage and family, religion in general, and faith and politics in particular.<\/p>\n<p>What do <em>you<\/em> think, both of the range of sources and news? Are there important sources I\u2019m not using? Important issues I don\u2019t include enough? If you\u2019d like to comment, just post it in the comments for this blog post. I\u2019ll read them all, and respond as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine months, the Daily Digest is now being received by more than 20,000 people. So, I thought I\u2019d solicit some reader opinion. First an explanation. 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