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This article originally appeared in Issue #16 / Summer 1981


Topic / Subject Area:
Faith-Based Media Literacy

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A Meditation on News-Gathering

A strange thing I have observed over many years in the business of news gathering and news presentation is that by some infallible process media people always manage to miss the most important thing. It’s almost as though there were some built-in propensity to do this.

However, in moments of humility, I realize that if I had been a correspondent in the Holy Land at the time of our Lord’s ministry, I should almost certaily have spent my time knocking about with the entourage of Pontius Pilate, finding out what the Sanhedrin was up to, and lurking around Herod’s court with the hope of signing up Salome to write her memoirs exclusively.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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