New In CJR: The Rise of Faith-based News

God is in the air. Or talk about Him, anyway. It is bouncing offsatellites, radiating from broadcast towers, winding through cablesystems, and glowing on screens in millions of living rooms.Evangelical Christians have created a vast and expandingalternative media universe that includes music, movies, sitcoms,and reality TV. But the brightest constellation now is news andpublic affairs programming, a potent mix of God, news, andright-wing politics. "Stations of the Cross," our May/June coverstory, examines the phenomena and illustrates how it is exerting agravitational pull on American politics and culture:http://cjr.org/issues/2005/3/blake-evangelist.asp

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