Great moments in journalism: “Sikhism originated in Italy” and other stupid things...

[Michie]

...TV says about religion

Back in the days when we got the news from TV sets with rabbit ears and read newspapers with smudgy ink (some even had afternoon editions!), I attended a fairly respectable journalism school where we were required to take courses in economics, politics, history and a foreign language —ostensibly, so that we would be Well-Rounded. Upon graduation...

Great moments in journalism: “Sikhism originated in Italy” and other stupid things TV says about religion...

 

[LoAmmi]

How about colleges? I once got into a heated discussion with a professor who was convinced that Jesus was a prophet in Judaism and that, despite practicing Judaism, I was probably just "not in church that day" when they taught us about Jesus being a prophet.

I was not really that amused.

If a college can't get it right, what hope is there for TV?