Read Carefully

Our colleague Jim Naughton, Canon for Communication in the Diocese of Washington, DC, has a few carefully chosen words for those who will be trying to decipher the news out of New Orleans over the next ten days. The most important of these: caution. He notes that the press are inclined to report the sensational, and failing that, to make something sound sensational that isn’t.

Jim also notes that it is the conservatives who have done the better job of using the media to “maintain an atmosphere of crisis” and to set the mainstream story line. You can read his full posting here.