Producer's Desk — mainstream media

Richard welcomes special guest Dr. John Yeats of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. They’ll discuss the spiritual revival and racial reconciliations happening in Jena, Louisiana. (You won’t hear about this in the mainstream media.)

Read up before the broadcast:

• Jena embraces ‘whatever God wants’ - Baptist Press
• Jena revival to enter 7th week - Baptist Press

JENA, La. — The revival that began Feb. 17 in Jena, La., is moving into the heart of the black community as it enters its seventh week March 31…

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My post today at Casting Stones:

EXCERPT: “Contrary to much of the reporting in the media, the Supreme Court decision in Medellin v. Texas was not primarily either a death penalty case or a decision regarding presidential executive power…”

Read the rest at Casting Stones…

• A Tennessee Church expands free English classes - Tennessean
• Rick Santorum says McCain must change views on social issues - Philly Inquirer
• The Washington Times editorializes the D.C. gun ban on trial
• “Newsflash”: The “right” is underrepresented in press’s diversity - Wash. Times
• Catholics Flock to the right Wash. Times

The founder of the Weather Channel calls global warming a fraud, suggests suing Al Gore.

• Global Warming Skeptics Insist Humans Not at Fault.

More links on that subject after the break.

Also after the break:

• Obama: Sermon on the Mount supports gay civil unions
• Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me - William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Web surpasses TV, papers as top news source
• What, Exactly, Is An Evangelical?

Richard Land and the Richard Land Live! staff are reading the following articles today…

• What That McCain Article Didn’t Say - NY Times editorial by Clark Hoyt

“A newspaper cannot begin a story about the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee with the suggestion of an extramarital affair with an attractive lobbyist 31 years his junior and expect readers to focus on anything other than what most of them did. And if a newspaper is going to suggest an improper sexual affair, whether editors think that is the central point or not, it owes readers more proof than The Times was able to provide. The stakes are just too big.” - Clark Hoyt: Public Editor, NYT

• Is there democracy in the Democratic Party? - by Richard Land for Beliefnet.com

“These superdelegates—disproportionately middle-aged (that’s being charitable), white, and male—are free to vote their “consciences,” without regard to what throngs of Democratic primary or caucus voters in their districts or states may have done.” - Richard Land

• Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis, Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community - at Politico.com
• Peggy Noonan analyzes Obama speeches at WSJ.com