The ACORN Scandal / Catholic Church Link Shows We Need More Christian Journalists in the MSM

There has been some buzz on the religious blogs and in the news about how evangelicals are missing from MSM newsrooms lately.

It should raise alarm bells. It should raise alarm bells because the general public that these newspapers and Networks serve are being done a huge disservice.

Get Religion points this out so well as to the Catholic Church Funding of ACORN in this very good story here at Click here. Click here. Think ghost.

The article compares a NYT story on the problems of ACORN and a Catholic News Article on how the Church has suspended all funding of Acorn and in fact has hired its on investigators to see if OUR CATHOLIC COLLECTION PLATE money was used wrongly. I would think this would well be of interest. How many Catholics that are following this story know that money they put in the collection plate might have funded some of this.

The article concludes:

The key, of course, is that these two stories have not been combined anywhere that I have found — please correct me if, in my haste, I am wrong.
Instead, they exist in separate media universes. Rare is the Catholic who will hear about these issues, because even the most faithful of parishioner is more likely to hear information in the mainstream news stream than in Catholic niche media.
If you search the story in the Times for the word “Catholic,” you get — nothing.
If you run a Google News search for “ACORN,” “Catholic” and “funding” you get all kinds of material, but all of it — you guessed it — in the world of tiny niche media where American Catholics and pro-Vatican Catholics duke it out week after week, month after month, year after year, world without end. Amen.

Is there a religion ghost here? What are the legal and financial ties between Acorn and other mainstream religious groups, drawing money from offering plates and ecclesiastical bureaucracies? And this question may be even more interesting: Is this struggle over Acorn and Catholic money linked, in any way, to the doctrinal debates inside the American church over Obama’s stance on abortion and gay rights? That’s the question that matters the most to me. That’s the religion story.
Hmmmm . . . I wonder what the coverage of this will be like on Comedy Central? That’s what really matters, I guess.

Again what are the other angles. Did Episcopal USA, the Lutherans and other bodies also contribute? Maybe so. Is that perhaps something the media should check out and alert its readers that are members of those Christian communities.

Again I think we again see that the religion reporting department is either being clueless or no one in the other parts of the news departments seems to be consulting them where issues intertwined

At least Christian Journalist would have a working knowledge somewhat of the scene of Christian news where these things come up