Nashville's major daily newspaper continues to leave clues to help us answer that all-important chicken and egg question:
Which came first, red states or red media?
Today's front page headline story (print edition) in The Tennessean, aka The Southern Baptist Times . . . drumroll please. . . .
"A move by Southern Baptists to bar enlistment of missionaries who profess to speak in tongues as they pray is stirring some controversy within the nation's largest Protestant denomination."
A Google News search by yours truly reveals that one (1) other newspaper carried this momentous story of the day. However, Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal labeled the story "Living/Religion."
We think that means it wasn't on the front page.
A quick glance around the newspapers of the world reveals that, yes, there were a few important news stories today:
Former DeLay Aide Enriched by Nonprofit
Tom DeLay's ex-chief of staff got more than a third of U.S. Family Network's $3.02M in revenue, mostly drawn from clients of Jack Abramoff.
The Word at War
U.S. firm that planted stories in Iraqi papers calls its actions "influence," not propaganda. . . Oh, no, not at all -- the Lincoln Group does not do propaganda. Sure, the firm's been tarred by some in Congress, the media and the defense establishment for paying Iraqi newspapers to publish hundreds of "news" stories secretly written by U.S. troops.
30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed
The discovery of the bodies provides more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.
Record crowd of 500,000 protests proposed federal crackdown
Joining what some are calling the largest mobilization of immigrants ever in the U.S., a crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched here Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall on the U.S. southern border.
Putin accused of plagiarising his PhD thesis
The career of President Vladimir Putin of Russia was built at least in part on a lie, according to US researchers. A new study of an economics
thesis written by Putin in the mid-1990s has revealed that large chunks of it were copied from an American text.
Saddam planned to deploy 'camels of mass destruction'
Saddam Hussein planned to use "camels of mass destruction" as weapons to defend Iraq, loading them with bombs and directing them towards invading forces.
Stay tuned for more clues from The Southern Baptist Times.
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