Group 10 addressed the ultimate question: How do you treat religion as a journalist? How do you completely displace your religion so that it does not affect your reporting or position as a journalist? As group 10 taught, it is impossible to ignore religion completely. They reminded all of us that although we cannot ignore religion, we need to keep three key things in mind to be as we report: be fair and balanced, make ethical decisions, and continually search for truth.
A cool thing that Group 10 showed our class was the website created by Terry Mattingly, getreligion.org. On this website, Mattingly, along with other editors, search for “ghosts” in articles previously published. These “ghosts” could be bias, or a truth that is not stated, or any underlying religious context that is not brought forth truthfully. I think Terry Mattingly has to be an interesting person for creating a website such as this, so I decided to research him a little bit and find his story. Here is an article that I found: http://www.tmatt.net/
I liked how group 10 used the video clip of the down syndrome testing to find underlying religious themes in the story that were or were not necessarily transparent or completely fair and balanced. I found another video clip that has underlying religious issues:
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