Prodigal Press: Confronting the Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media

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Olasky, Marvin & Smith, Warren Cole

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9781596385979

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342

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Despite claiming to be neutral, print and TV journalists increasingly report news from an anti-Christian standpoint. Remarkably, however, leading nineteenth-century newspapers reported news from a Christian perspective. This book reveals how the American news media shifted from a Christian worldview to secular humanism, radically altering what the media covers and how it is reported.

Contents

Part One: Departure

1. The Decline of American Journalism
2. Spiking the Spiritual
3. Not Without Personal Cost
4. Man’s Subjectivity vs. God’s Plumb Line

Part Two: Exile

5. Ethics without Christ?
6. Libel: Utilitarian Justice vs. Biblical Truth-Telling
7. Press vs. Public
8. Perceptive Media Watching

Part Three: Return?

9. Network News and Local Newspapers: The Coming Economic Judgment
10. The Devil in the Electrons
11. Coverage of Sensation and Disaster: The Gaining and Keeping of Audiences
12. Crusading on Social and Political Issues: Personalization and persistence
13. A Christian Journalism Revival?

Appendix I: The Best of the Worst: Examples of Media Bias
Appendix II: Additional Resources
Appendix III: Public Relations, Theology, and Practice

About the Authors

Marvin Olasky (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is editor-in-chief of WORLD magazine and holds the Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy at Patrick Henry College. Olasky studied at Yale University and is the author of more than 20 books—Philanthropy magazine called his book The Tragedy of American Compassion one of "eight books that changed America."

Warren Cole Smith is associate publisher of WORLD magazine and publisher and editor of WORLD news service. His essays, reviews, interviews, and articles have also been included in various books, including Public Relations, one of the world's most widely used college journalism textbooks.