God and journalism: American reportedly beheaded by ISIS wrote about his faith
GETRELIGION.ORG — What absolutely crushing news.
Amid all the brutal headlines involving the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria (important background here) came a YouTube video Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
Lord, have mercy. MT @mpoppel: BREAKING: Islamic State, in video “A Message to America,” beheads American journalist James Wright Foley
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 19, 2014
White House: “we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist” http://t.co/C3unSarWVW pic.twitter.com/naLpEzbrvB
— JustinGreen∞ (@JGreenDC) August 20, 2014
#MessagefromjournostoISIS How dare you think we will dishonour our friends by giving up. We never will #RIPJamesFoley pic.twitter.com/1DUJnrYU3V
— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) August 20, 2014
This analysis of media coverage appears online at GetReligion.org.
