January 29, 2008

Hints on Covering Mormonism, Part I

Hint: When covering a story within Mormonism, if you find that your three quoted sources are a famously disfellowshipped Mormon (something close to excommunication) a famously lapsed Mormon, and a non-Mormon, consider a re-write.

This tip is offered free of charge to Jennifer Dobner of the Associated Press.*

*Whose coverage, I should note, appears otherwise to have been fair.  Unnecessarily out of balance, but fair. 

* Filed under: Coverage, Mormonism

One Response to “Hints on Covering Mormonism, Part I”

  1. RomneyExperience Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    [...] though I offered my advice to the AP’s Jennifer Dobner yesterday, and even though I took pains to note that such advice [...]