Lane Williams
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Lane Williams teaches journalism and communication at BYU-Idaho. He is a former journalist whose scholarly interests include Mormon portrayals in the media, media and religion, and religion and politics.

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My experience with journalists suggests they almost always try to get the story of the Latter-day Saints correct.
Lots of news coverage holds up examples of LDS success and uses those examples to show how Mormons are uniquely successful in certain fields, but do the numbers really bear that out?
Visiting teaching and home teaching are a vital essence of the LDS life, and they rarely make news.
Recent comments by Martin Bashir and by a blogger in Salon magazine deserve rebuke for using the Book of Mormon to score political points, but it's commendable that they opened the book in the first place.
The AP is reporting that millions of lives have been saved as part of a vaccination program for measles, a program the LDS Church continues to play an important role in.
A story by the BBC shows the limits of getting both sides in journalism.
The news coverage about a new temple in Kansas City sometimes, though certainly not always, misses the remarkable history behind the beautiful new structure.
Lawrence O'Donnell's predictably mean-spirited discussion of Joseph Smith does have the virtue of reminding us of the centrality of Joseph Smith's experiences to what it means to be a Latter-day Saint.
A new study from the National Center for Health Statistics received less attention than it should have.
A new blog post for the Atlantic, while an excellent piece of political analysis, goes off the rails in its descriptions of the Book of Mormon. The Atlantic deserved better as did readers.