Understanding Journalism Part 2

So what do we learn from that last post?

The journalist job is to take the "facts" and interpret them for their audience in a way that is compelling and meaningful. That is why some many stories about the church are run through a political grid or a "moral majority" grid. The stories and churches within them are interpreted through what the journalist knows and has read about in other stories that are written before.

I do not envy the journalist that is trying to get their story across, but this tells us that every story has a bent -- a story underneath the story.

The church then should be aware constantly of how we are regarded (whether we like or not) and be able to address in love how the church can be more than the sum of the headlines.