Hard pressed

Over the last month, news of the mendaciousness of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has been impossible to avoid. And equally difficult to miss have been the people revelling in the discomfort felt by News International executives. Common among the reaction has been the insistence that the revelations have been unsurprising – that we always knew that phone hacking and police bribery were an accepted part of tabloid journalism.

Well, maybe so. It is certainly clear that, in …

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Comments

Veronica Zundel

I really think it is unfair, not to mention inaccurate, to class Frank Shaeffer as seeing the world in black and white. On the contrary, he has developed a nuanced approach to faith which strongly contrasts with the black and white views he used to hold, and which his father held. Or are you just having a little joke?

Posted: 16 August 2011

Simon Jones

Veronica, Schaeffer says here that the likes of Rob Bell or Shane Claiborne, or here in the UK Maggi Dawn or Kester Brewin, are accomplices to a very bad person. Wouldn’t you say that’s a black & white definition?

Posted: 16 August 2011