Delia Gallagher profile…
Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman has a profile of CNN’s Faith and Values correspondent Delia Gallagher…
CNN’s decision to hire a religion reporter coincides with what appears to be a movement among the U.S. media. Newsweek devoted many covers in the past few years to religious subjects. And Time’s cover piece recently asked: Does God Want You to Be Rich?
Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/U.S., said of religion: “It’s a category that’s underrepresented in television and in journalism.”
Klein added: When Pope John Paul II died last year, “Delia was our Vatican analyst. She did such a thorough job and was so poised and encyclopedic, it just clicked that this is the perfect match for a person we had a need for.”
Religon ought not to be mixed with politics, which is the main menu for most cable channels. We get enough of that on Sunday mornings with those sermons being broadcast from a number of outlets across the country.
Furthermore, news about faith and values can be covered any time of the day, if it’s important (like the death of the Pople last year and the controversy about Pope Benedict’s lecture on faith and reason.)This is not to undermine the importance of religion, but saying there is a movement in the printed media to report more of it is hugely exaggerated.
Comment by RGL — September 22, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
At least CNN has an actual journalist reporting on religious news.
Comment by Pete — September 22, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
If I need to find faith and values, don’t think I’ll be looking to this stuck-up reporter on CNN to guide me to them. CNN needs to re-think the title. It’s offensive.
Comment by Connie Thompson — September 23, 2006 @ 10:41 am