Previously in my blog I have noted two things that pertain to today’s comments:

1)  The Presbyterian Church (USA) seems to be better at sending Presbyterian News Service reporters to “progressive” events than “evangelical” events.  [ Previous Post – See the last paragraph] (Pardon the labels.)

2)  The Presbyterian Church (USA) has a new communications person in Karen Schmidt, the deputy executive director of the General Assembly Council for communications and fund development.  And at the GAC meeting Karen talked about a unified message. [ Previous Post]

While I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately enough data points are developing to form a trend.

My latest observation:
In doing the research on the latest convocation of the New Wineskins Association of Churches I found information in other blogs (like Toby Brown’s Classical Presbyterian), The Layman, and the Presbyterian Outlook.  As far as I can tell, the Presbyterian News Service was silent.  While the PNS did not cover the NWAC Convocation, they did cover the meeting of the Covenant Network the following week with two articles, one on the meeting in general and their statement from the meeting and the other article on the testimony given at the meeting given by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.

Now, I do not have a problem with the coverage of the Covenant Network meeting, but I do question the continuing trend to cover “progressive” events like the Covenant Network meeting while not covering, at least in the same detail, “evangelical” meetings that occur at almost the same time.