Showing posts with label citizen journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citizen journalism. Show all posts
Thursday, June 27, 2019

My Thoughts on Sharing the Photo of the Drowned Bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and His Daughter Valeria

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We must force ourselves to keep seeing. Yesterday, on social media, I shared a photo of the bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

National Catholic Reporter Announces It Will Restrict Its Commenting Services, Due to "Dramatic Increase in Trolls and Disruptive Comments"

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Last week, I pointed you to some valuable (and worrisome) commentary about how trolls are trashing open discussion spaces online and...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Glenn Greenwald on Jonathan Chait: "What Made the Indignity So Much Worse Was That the Attacks Came from People These Journalists Regard as Nobodies"

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As Joan Walsh notes in her valuable critique of Jonathan Chait's recent oy to the universe about, well, the astonishing way in...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Thanks to Fred Clark for Recommending Bilgrimage in Slacktivist's "Daily Blog of the Day" List

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I am very grateful to Fred Clark for recommending my Bilgrimage blog in his new year's list of "daily blogs of the day...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Shutting Down Discussion at Catholic Blog Sites and Amanda Hess on Why Women Aren't Welcome Online: Making the Connections

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Some eye-popping statistical data from Amanda Hess's magisterial essay about why women aren't welcome on the internet (each ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Suspension of Comments by National Catholic Reporter: An Update

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My posting Monday noting that National Catholic Reporter  had suspended comments due to a proliferation of "vile and demeaning...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Bilgrimage Coverage of Papal Resignation Archived by Library of Congress

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A bit of good news I'd like to share with Bilgrimage readers:

NPR Continues to Publish Erroneous Information about 2009 Pew Study and U.S. Catholic Affiliation Data: I Continue to Contact NPR

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Speaking of scholars or media outlets that won't answer inquiry letters when they have gotten their facts wrong: 
Friday, October 5, 2012

Warning Message about Malware?

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Dear Folks, Two readers of Bilgrimage have notified me that they're now receiving warning messages when they try to access Bi...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

A Donation Feature: An Explanation

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As the weekend goes on, I wanted to post a quick note to tell readers about a change I made to Bilgrimage yesterday.  Some of you may hav...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Note on VOTF Analysis of John Jay Report: Gratitude to VOTF for Linking to My Posting

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I'm grateful to Voice of the Faithful for linking to my posting re: their analysis of the John Jay report, in the latest issue ...
Friday, July 22, 2011

All in a Week's Work: A Sounding of the Level of Intellectual Civility on (Some) Catholic Blogsites

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Things I've been called in blog discussions with fellow Catholics this week:
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Recent Blogging Bugs?

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Dear Readers, I've had emails from two longtime readers of Bilgrimage in the past few days, telling me of difficulties they're en...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Media Misrepresent Jeremiah Wright Sermon, Accuse Him of Describing Obama Detractors as Psychopaths

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I've just posted the following to my Facebook page:

Comments Section of Blog

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Dear Readers, A good friend and faithful reader of the blog has emailed to let me know the comments section of the blog disappeared yeste...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Marty Kaplan on the Failure of the Mainstream Media in the Shirley Sherrod Debacle

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Vis-a-vis the Shirley Sherrod debacle, more important takeaway , this time from Marty Kaplan at Huffington Post, focusing on the failure o...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Corporate Responsibility and Consumer Relations: What the Big Boys Might Learn from Small Business (with a Catholic Application)

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I blogged back in February about the dismissive response I received from a major chain of stores, Target, when I sought to provide them w...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

More Congratulations: Michael Bayly's Progressive Catholic Voice Also Makes Top Catholic Blog List

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Yesterday, when I congratulated Colleen Kochivar-Baker whose Enlightened Catholicism blog just made the top 50 Catholic blog list at Onlin...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Congratulations: Enlightened Catholicism Makes List of 50 Best Catholic Blogs

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News that brings delight to me as this day begins: a blog I very much admire, Colleen Kochivar-Baker's Enlightened Catholicism, has ju...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Opening the Tabernacle: More on the New Progressive catholic Blog

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Dear Readers, Although I may be somewhat slow in posting here for the next several days, please don’t think I’ve abandoned Bilgrimage. I’m ...