The New York Times’ executive editor said that his newspaper — and “media powerhouses” across the nation — “do not understand what motivates devoutly religious Americans.”
Dean Baquet sat down Thursday with NPR for an extended interview on the media landscape following Donald Trump’s presidential election win on Nov. 8. Host Terry Gross essentially engaged in an after-action review in terms of what media outlets can learn from the election cycle.
When Mr. Baquet was asked whether he is “wrestling” with how to cover President-elect Trump, he used the question to pivot to ways to reach religious readers.
“I want to make sure that we are much more creative about beats out in the country so that we understand that anger and disconnectedness that people feel,” Mr. Baquet said. “And I think I use religion as an example because I was raised Catholic in New Orleans.
"I think that the New York-based and Washington-based too probably, media powerhouses don’t quite get religion. We have a fabulous religion writer, but she’s all alone. We don’t get religion. We don’t get the role of religion in people’s lives. And I think we can do much, much better. And I think there are things that we can be more creative about to understand the country.”
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Then you have embraced the wholly secular, which is leaving religion behind. Is this what you want?
ReplyDeleteYou, in the most diverse population on the planet, don't get it? Where have you been?!?
ReplyDeleteBut at the same time they claim that Islam is the greatest, most peaceful religion ever.
ReplyDeleteThey don't have to get it. They just have to report in a dispassionate, unbiased way.
ReplyDeleteIt will all work out in the end, with some doing better than others.
ReplyDeletethey STILL don't get it.
that's obvious...
ReplyDeleteImagine how sad all those little whiners are going to feel come judgement day when they find out they were wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult for Zionists to understand the Christian religion.
ReplyDeleteThat's why clinton lost and they still keep putting out fake post. Mainstream media is not real it's all propaganda. Still pulling Russia into is ridiculous. Soon they will feel the power of the White House.
ReplyDeleteDuh...Satan worshippers will never get it
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should just go to church themselves
ReplyDeleteTrying to quantify the role of true Faith in believers' lives is not going to happen on your terms. The secular world has made God in its image and anyone who believes the opposite, that God created us, MUST be wrong, strange, deranged, brainwashed, etc.
ReplyDeletePraying for our country to 'get it'!
Accepting theree is a Creator who loves us enough to let us screw everything up and yet STILL LOVES US is an amazing thing.