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Dec 10, 2004

Journalism Ethics

by Liberty and Power

This strikes me as deliberately dishonest: ABC’s web site offers the headline “Famous Atheist Now Believes in God” for a story about philosopher Antony Flew. But if you read the story, it’s clear and unambiguous that he doesn’t believe in the deity that the headline seems to refer to. (He seems to have a religion similar to that of our co-blogger Roderick Long.)