Comments on: Today’s Reading List – April 26, 2007 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/27/todays-reading-list-april-26-2007-2/ "Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by a Mormon, an Evangelical, and an Orthodox Christian" Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: CarlH http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/27/todays-reading-list-april-26-2007-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3584 CarlH Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:30:55 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/27/todays-reading-list-april-26-2007-2/#comment-3584 Following up on my prior post, here's <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660215305,00.html" rel="nofollow">another review</a> of "The Mormons," this from the LDS Church-owned Deseret Morning News' TV writer, which give hope that the series is more even-handed than the Boston Globe's review would suggest. Following up on my prior post, here’s another review of “The Mormons,” this from the LDS Church-owned Deseret Morning News’ TV writer, which give hope that the series is more even-handed than the Boston Globe’s review would suggest.

]]> By: CarlH http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/27/todays-reading-list-april-26-2007-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3576 CarlH Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:29:10 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/04/27/todays-reading-list-april-26-2007-2/#comment-3576 Speaking of back-handed attempts to stick Romney with "The Question," the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/04/27/a_gripping_look_at_foundations_of_mormon_faith/" rel="nofollow">Boston Globe</a> (surprise . . . not!) does it with a review of the upcoming PBS series "The Mormons":<blockquote>Imagine a four-hour documentary on the Mormon church that skips its most prominent member in the country today, Mitt Romney. "The Mormons," a collaboration between PBS powerhouse series " Frontline " and " American Experience, " is that show. Yet its mere airing may finally force the former governor to explain publicly his faith and its influence on him as a politician, much as John Kennedy did with his Catholicism in 1960. What it will surely do is complicate his run for the White House.</blockquote> And that's without going into whether the article can be considered a "review" or a hatchet job. If the documentary is nothing more than Sam Allis's characterization (caricature?), there are going to be a lot of very disappointed Mormons who have hoped for at least an even-handed documentary. Speaking of back-handed attempts to stick Romney with “The Question,” the Boston Globe (surprise . . . not!) does it with a review of the upcoming PBS series “The Mormons”:
Imagine a four-hour documentary on the Mormon church that skips its most prominent member in the country today, Mitt Romney.

“The Mormons,” a collaboration between PBS powerhouse series ” Frontline ” and ” American Experience, ” is that show. Yet its mere airing may finally force the former governor to explain publicly his faith and its influence on him as a politician, much as John Kennedy did with his Catholicism in 1960. What it will surely do is complicate his run for the White House.

And that’s without going into whether the article can be considered a “review” or a hatchet job. If the documentary is nothing more than Sam Allis’s characterization (caricature?), there are going to be a lot of very disappointed Mormons who have hoped for at least an even-handed documentary.

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