I'd love to see a book or documentary examining how today's news media would cover the life of Jesus. If it was done well, I think it would be enlightening to remove all the preconceptions and biases we bring to the figure of Christ - whatever your view of him - and receive a thorough analysis of how the events of his life would be covered. Or not covered at all.
In my mind, it would need to be produced by someone who has been in a newsroom and knows firsthand how decisions of coverage are made, and has made the decisions themselves.
For example, how would the news media cover the birth in the stable? My sense is it would be mostly an afterthought, if that. Perhaps it would be what folks in the biz call a "kicker" - that lighthearted story that comes at the end of a newscast as long as the weatherman doesn't go over his allotted time. It was an event that took place with so little fanfare that it would have been easy for the media to overlook altogether.
If I had spent more of my working life in news, it might have been a project I'd taken on myself. If I did, maybe the video below would be inspiration for the forward. Merry Christmas!
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