Andy Crouch: The Media and the Massacre

From Christianity Today online. See what you think.

I did not actually curse in the televisions’ direction until I heard them serve up the most heinous possible version of disaster theology—this, offered in all strident sincerity to best explain the fates of the victims to one’s own children: “God needed some wonderful new angels. He asked for them, and he got them.”

Not a single person in that airport was assisted in any way by these ghastly disclosures, pat press releases, and offensive atheologies. But this is the ironclad logic of continuous broadcasting: Broadcasting must be continuous. Someone must always be saying something even when there is nothing new to say.

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