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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (27390)	2/1/2004 2:56:46 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 793685

Second, I have never heard them give a mike to any Christian to describe Christian dogma as historical fact. Certainly not without a distancing device such as "the faithful believe that..." I think that you are making too much of the incident. Reporters put microphones in front of people all the time. It is an invitation for them to state their opinions or beliefs or feelings or whatever. There will be football players today making all sorts of excited utterances that bear no relationship to fact. Some will undoubtedly claim that God is on their side or that their team is the best ever. Ask any demonstrator or reveler for a comment and you get their beliefs and opinions and feelings. If you ask a principal in a trial for a comment as he comes down the court house steps, you don't put it in context but rather expect the viewer to recognize the comments for what they are. We don't don't expect reporters to correct factual errors. Nor we expect them to offer a caveat about the comments just being the opinion of the interviewee. I don't think this is any different. Ask someone doing the Hajj thing a question and you get an answer from the perspective of the devout. Speaking as someone who is utterly non-religious, I hear interview subjects repeating religious dogma as fact all the time. The simple mention of God as a player in surrounding events is religious dogma. You might not notice that but I do. Picture this scenario: an interview with a grieving mother of a murder victim saying that her son is in a better place and the reporter reminding the audience that the interviewee is only expressing her opinion on an afterlife. LOL. I get the impression that the BBC doesn't like Christianity much. Perhaps so. I don't have enough exposure to the BBC to have an opinion. But if is is so, you sure can't tell it from this example, IMO. Change of subject. I came upon a web site today that might interest you--the American Copy Editors' Society. People here fuss all the time about editors. The site has quizzes presumably of things that editors should know. I did surprisingly well on the Middle East quiz but badly flunked the AP Style one. I found the quizzes amusing and informative. copydesk.org

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