Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Roll

It’s the most wonderful time of the year:

Unlike the Koran-burning by Westboro Baptist, Mr. Jones’s planned event in Gainesville, Fla., coincided with the controversy over the proposed building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan near ground zero and a simmering summerlong debate about the freedoms of speech and religion.

Mr. Jones was able to put himself at the center of those issues by using the news lull of summer and the demands of a 24-hour news cycle to promote his anti-Islam cause. 

In other less flashy news: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is finally ruled to be unconstitutional, the ban on federal funding for stem cell research is lifted, and the opposition to Prop 8 may have lost its legs. Good work, team.

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