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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, former editor of Commonweal, is codirector of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture.
News filter: Navigating the new media
We asked some expert observers of the religion scene how they are navigating the new media. What do they read, watch and listen to? How have their reading, listening and viewing habits changed over the past decade?Here's Mark Silk: "I’ve always been a news junkie. I still take two dead-tree newspapers—the New York Times and the Hartford Courant. I look at the Washington Post every morning, and I listen to NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered while driving to and from work. At work, I’m in thrall to the continuous news cycle. I check the AP wire on Yahoo as soon as I sit down at my desk, and then scan the general-interest blogs and blogzines—the Daily Dish, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post, the Daily Beast."
Chaos management
Paul Bremer landed in Baghdad on May 12, 2003, and departed little more than a year later, on June 28, 2004....
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