{"id":4902,"date":"2011-07-29T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2011-07-28T21:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T01:40:01","slug":"is-there-an-anti-faith-disdain-in-the-media-yes-says-longtime-ap-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/is-there-an-anti-faith-disdain-in-the-media-yes-says-longtime-ap-reporter","title":{"rendered":"Is there an anti-faith disdain in the media? Yes, says longtime AP reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian leaders, whether speaking from the Holy See in Rome, the stages of America\u2019s mega church multimedia wonders or the meanest, rusting music-stand pulpit of storefront inner-city chapel, all decry what they see as the growing bias of secular media toward believers.<\/p>\n<p>And, in part, it\u2019s true. As a long-time journalist myself, I\u2019ve seen mere ambivalence toward faith that once characterized the typical American newsroom fray. Today it\u2019s not easy to miss the disdain, sometimes even thinly veiled hostility toward faith. That said, there is always a danger to dismissing an entire industry (or faith) for the attitudes and actions of a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/preacherskid\/2011\/07\/anti-christian-media-bias-yes-and-christians-share-the-blame.html#ixzz1TJyGs2zq\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian leaders, whether speaking from the Holy See in Rome, the stages of America\u2019s mega church multimedia wonders or the meanest, rusting music-stand pulpit of storefront inner-city chapel, all decry what they see as the growing bias of secular media toward believers. And, in part, it\u2019s true. As a long-time journalist myself, I\u2019ve seen mere&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[2204,2201,1106],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","category-news","tag-christian","tag-news","tag-robert-mims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is there an anti-faith disdain in the media? 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