IGNORANCE: Reporting on what you don't understand!

Palin's religion was obscured | Miami Herald
HT - AP Next Going After Palin's 'Derided' Religion | News Busters

The media is often guilty of writing on subjects or about events from a position of ignorance; whether this is due to animus, laziness, or busy-ness I'm unsure.

The Associated Press takes the attacks against Sarah Palin to the next level by saying that in her released bio Palin's religion was "obscured." The AP is suggesting that Palin's ostensibly secret religion is really Pentecostalism which, they note, is a sect that is "derided by outsiders and Bible-believers alike" ... saying here that the McCain campaign is trying to cover up Palin's past because they must somehow know that her real religion is a cult or some wacko, fringe sect. [NB]

It is clear from a cursory reading of the Miami Herald piece that the writer and the editors do not know what they are talking about.

Besides, I would ask the media (again), "Who died and left you in charge?"

Christianity, Cristophobia,
Ignorance, Palin,
Pentecostalism, Religion