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From The Da Vinci Code to Outlawing ‘Under God’ from the Pledge – Issues of Faith are a Talk Radio Staple
By TALKERS Staff
In the past twenty years non-religious media have notably increased their coverage of religious topics. More of the nation’s top news items have a religious component—and it is not just the rehashed debates over abortion and same-sex marriage.
Whether examining the beliefs behind terrorist jihads or a President who is vocal in person and policy about his faith—talk show hosts and producers are looking for guests who can make theological topics interesting without the parlance of a tent-meeting evangelist.
The evolution (divine creation?) of faith-oriented news items has created a niche newswire called Christian Newswire. This service has grown from hand-faxing a hundred press releases for jailed abortion protesters in 1989 – to a full-service newswire distributing 30,000 releases at a time, creating the Terri Schiavo firestorm which cut short the President’s and Congress’ spring break in 2005.
Christian Newswire (www.ChristianNewswire.com) boasts over 500 clients from international aid organizations, to arrested church leaders in China; from nationally know Dr. James Dobson and Rick Warren, of “The Purpose Driven Life” fame, to an unknown high-school student suspended for wearing a t-shirt imprinted with a politically insensitive message.
Throughout each day ChristianNewswire.com posts unedited news releases directly from the protagonists involved, hours before they hit the scrolling bar on CNN and FOX.
ChristianNewswire.com just upgraded their website to give radio producers RSS feeds based on specific topics, and the option to be sent press releases on a narrow or wide range of interests.
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The Christian Right’s PR Service
Christian Newswire serves backers of violent anti-abortion activists, Jerry Falwell, Focus on the Family … and the White House.
ADELE M. STAN | May 22, 2007
Today the family, friends, and admirers of the Reverand Jerry Falwell will gather on the campus of Liberty University, part of the Falwell fundamentalist enterprise, to pay their last respects to the man who is being lauded as the founder of the religious right.
Surely, nearly all of the right-wing politicians that now proliferate in the Republican Party, not least among them the current president of the United States, owe Falwell a debt of gratitude. And so I was not surprised to find this statement from President Bush arrive in my inbox yesterday:
Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of Jerry Falwell, a man who cherished faith, family, and freedom. As the founder of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Jerry lived a life of faith and called upon men and women of all backgrounds to believe in God and serve their communities. One of his lasting contributions was the establishment of Liberty University, where he taught young people to remain true to their convictions and rely upon God’s word throughout each stage of their lives. Today, our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Macel and the rest of the Falwell family.
Nothing remarkable about the statement, really. What is remarkable is the source. This statement was sent to me by the Christian Newswire, which lists on its Web site such clients as Operation Rescue, Feminists for Life, the Abstinence Clearinghouse and Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (P-FOX). Better-known right-wing clients listed include Focus on the Family, the Traditional Values Coalition, and the White House. Yup. The White House — that White House. (The Christian Newswire folks have helpfully built the link to www.whitehouse.gov right into the citation on their client list.) Even if you were okay with your tax dollars being sent to an outfit called “Christian Newswire,” which bills itself as “the nation’s leading distributor of religious news releases,” you might have a few issues with your tax dollars going into the pocket of a trusted aid to domestic terrorists, which is precisely what Gary McCullough, CEO of Christian Newswire’s parent company, the Christian Communication Network, is.
If McCullough’s name sounds vaguely familiar to you, it’s likely because of his role, shared with Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, as a spokesman for the parents of Terri Schiavo, who permitted themselves to be used as tools of the right wing when their daughter’s husband sought to remove her feeding tube 15 years into her diagnosis as being in a “persistent vegetative state.”
During the last days of the Terri Schiavo affair, Randall Terry, right-wing priest Fr. Frank Pavone, and McCullough were standing with Schiavo’s parents, the Schindlers, as they sought Supreme Court intervention in their daughter’s end-of-life care.
Leaders of the religious right’s more respectable outfits generally like to keep their distance from the violent loonies, but McCullough’s entry into respectable right-wing society suggests the distance to have been created with smoke and mirrors. And what of Jerry Falwell? Surely, the man being lionized today as a champion of the Bible would have brooked no business with the likes of McCullough, an apologist for murderers? Well, think again. On the client list of Christian Newswire, under the heading “ministries,” one finds the name, Jerry Falwell.
Adele M. Stan has written on religion for Ms., Mother Jones, and The New Republic, and is the author of the blog AddieStan.