Religion and the Media

I loved the socrative quiz that the group did, it was very insightful and forced us to ask a lot of very important questions.  Personally, I don’t think it’s a fair question to ask members of a religion if they think that they are being discriminated against, because they will always say that they are in order to garner sympathy.

In terms of the articles I read on this topic, as usual there are two articles that I read.  The first one is located at this URL:  http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-06-21-column21_ST_N.htm .  It talks mostly about how social media is changing religion, and I agree with a lot of the content in this article.  It’s pretty much saying that social media has affected religion just like it has affected everything else: it’s made it quicker, easier to access, and more wide spread.

The second article is located at this URL: http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/5463/ .  It is similar to the first article in that it talks about how social media is affecting religion.  My favorite part of this article was where it talked about “social prayer”, and how prayers are kind of unified with social media.  When something bad happens, people ask for thoughts and prayers to be sent out to the victims of the bad event, and it kind of unifies people in that sense.

All-in-all, I see religion and faith as inevitable in the world, but I think we as objective journalists should try to eliminate religious discourse from our work.