CNN has a "faith and values" correspondent? What the ####?

What? No missing blonde bombshell in a Carib resort correspondent?

We have a person from the VP offices arrested for spying in the White House. We have a highly placed military civilian pleading guilty to spying for Israel. We have Fitz's report and indictments coming out, possibly this week. We have torture provisions about to be vetoed by a war president. And we have a "major speach on terra and Iraq" later today. And CNN has a faith-based correspondent?

no wonder our country is so s c r e w e d up and uninformed.

Oh, wait...wrong show.

just what the heck IS a faith-based correspondent?? Is her work based on faith? Do we need to take her on faith? Is her name Faith?

Thank goodness for DU.

unexplicably winning a rigged voting machine election.

The GOP controlled broadcast media will keep telling the public that they voted for Bush because of RELIGION, RELIGION, RELIGION.

I want separation of church and public airwaves.

tax their land, their income, their everything.

I'm not sure the context of this story since you didn't provide a link but having a person who comments or writes on religious matters isn't a new or shocking things. Most major Newspapers have a guy who covers religion.

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and tithing.

at the prospect of a news organization having someone who covers religion. I'm sorry I can't get into the swing of things.

The immediate implication I get is that those without faith have no values, as the two are linked by the reporter's title.

How someone could have NO values (good or bad) is beyond me, but apparently not to the folks at CNN. Most major newspapers and media outlets have a religion reporter or correspondent -- what irks me is the "values" portion of CNN's title.

mikey_the_rat

Frankly it could easily go the other way. Faith is the religion side and Values is intended as the more general inclusive side of the equation.

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coverage. It certainly deserves as much coverage as celebrity news.

Even better...Organized Religion reporter cause most the stories covered are about xtianity...specifically the Roman Catholic Church and big Fundie denominations...and almost always with the church's spin on an issue with little rebutal. "It is written".

Rarely will you see stories on "fringe" religions unless it's getting the xtian view on their issues...example: Muslim women's issues. Forget getting the Buddhist view or the Taoist view of events...or that it's given the same credibility of that of a televangelist. This is feel good stuff.

Faith is a whole different concept. You don't go to a church to have a faith. You don't have to "devote your life" to someone else to have a faith. Reporting about organized religions is not faith...it's another form of politics.

Peace...

would feel excluded, no?

I have faith (in my humanism) and I have values. Do you not see that "Faith and Values" and "Religion" are not necessarily synonymous?

I wish I could find it.

From a bumper sticker: Religion is for people afraid of going to hell, faith is for those who have already been there.

They include Randy Cohen's "The Ethicist" which is one of the most subversively progressive syndicated columns out there. Our section does a good job of covering all the major faiths and the minor ones as well.

I'm not familiar with CNN's coverage but FWIW this religious skeptic has no problem with the concept.

After all, fair is fair.

Where's that damned equal time rule when you need it.

After all, reporters are supposed to cover both sides of an issue.

Will the Faith & Values Correspondent give a special presentation on the day the two thousandth American dies in Iraq? What about torture?

It's quite possible to have Values without any Faith. And most of those who have true Faith don't make a lot of noise about it. (There are a lot of hypocrites out there preaching.)

Or maybe she can be their new Food & Cooking editor?

the ROOF! My words EXACTLY! "A faith and values correspondent???>!!!@##$$%%$#@! What the FUCK!" I couldn't believe my eyes and ears! I went BALLISTIC and of course my husband just looked at me like I was over-reacting...again, he ~~~rolls eyes~~~ :eyes:. THAT is beyond RIDICULOUS! CNN needs an earful!

people to accept this as the norm. Psyops at its best.

since when is "faith and values" the same thing?

two things: 1) faith and 2) values.

that's why they use the term "Faith AND Values".

What do they mean by "values"? Do they mean those certain groups of people who are racist and their politicians who get their vote by "wink and nod" politics?? In other words, there can be a lot of cross wearing and rockin' in the pews but underneath is a dirty little world. So, do they cover those "wink and nod" politicians as dirty racists or do they cover them as "the voice of all those wonderful masses of Christians out there". That's what is sickening about it. How about a reporter who uncovers the real gut values that are at the base of the "supposed values". What shit (and I'm saying that as a life long Christian).