{"id":928,"date":"2007-11-09T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2007-11-09T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T03:24:00","slug":"pcusa-communication-no-apparent-change-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"PCUSA Communication: No apparent change yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Previously in my blog I have noted two things that pertain to today&#8217;s comments:<\/p>\n<p>1)&nbsp; The Presbyterian Church (USA) seems to be better at sending Presbyterian News Service reporters to &#8220;progressive&#8221; events than &#8220;evangelical&#8221; events.&nbsp; [<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2007\/08\/24\/comments-on-the-presbyterian-coalition-gathering.aspx\"> Previous Post<\/a> &#8211; See the last paragraph] (Pardon the labels.)<\/p>\n<p>2)&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; And at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2007\/07592.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> GAC meeting Karen talked about a unified message.<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2007\/09\/21\/pcusa-gac-meeting--change-is-coming--will-it-be-enough.aspx\"> Previous Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>While I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately enough data points are developing to form a trend.<\/p>\n<p>My latest observation:<br \/>In doing the research on the latest convocation of the New Wineskins Association of Churches I found information in other blogs (like Toby Brown&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicalpresbyterian.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Classical Presbyterian<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/layman\/Archive1\/index-new-wineskins-convocation.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> The Layman<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pres-outlook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the Presbyterian Outlook<\/a>.&nbsp; As far as I can tell, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\" target=\"_blank\"> Presbyterian News Service<\/a> was silent.&nbsp; While the PNS did not cover the NWAC Convocation, they did cover the meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covenantnetwork.org\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Covenant Network<\/a> the following week with two articles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2007\/07733.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> one on the meeting in general<\/a> and their statement from the meeting and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2007\/07725.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> other article on the testimony given at the meeting<\/a> given by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I do not have a problem with the coverage of the Covenant Network meeting, but I do question the continuing trend to cover &#8220;progressive&#8221; events like the Covenant Network meeting while not covering, at least in the same detail, &#8220;evangelical&#8221; meetings that occur at almost the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously in my blog I have noted two things that pertain to today&#8217;s comments: 1)&nbsp; 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