In the name of the father

• Autores: Mike Hoyt
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 52, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 51-52
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Here, Hoyt chases his father Robert Hoyt, the founding editor, of the National Catholic Reporter (NCR), through a series of books about the paper and the era. He's been tracking his footprints, trying to draw a bead on him as an editor and a man. In its first five years, The NCR's circulation rocketed from zero to 100,000 readers. In the early 1970s, though, it began to lose steam, falling to 60,000. His father had a different analysis, pointing to the historical moment. This is a newspaper, not a pious journal, and it quite deliberately adopts a vocabulary that cannot be confused with the saccharine and submissive language once considered the mark of Catholic loyalty. His father's claim to fame is that, nearly 50 years ago, in the fall of 1964, he and some colleagues set in motion a lively newspaper that covers the Catholic Church and its tidal pull on the world, from an independent and intelligent lay perspective--a paper that changed the rules for covering religion and remains an influential voice.