Thread by Salvation.
President Obama's appearance at the Notre Dame commencement exercises produced an enormous outpouring of journalistic coverage.
Prior to the event, the atmosphere was so feverish that when Duncan Maxell Anderson concocted a story based on the idea that Obama had donated his speaking fee to defray lost alumni contributions, many readers failed to recognize that it was a satire.
On the GetReligion site, Terry Mattingly continued to insist that reporters should get their facts straight. That was, alas, a losing battle.
USA Today provided live blogging on the event, with a panel of experts (including Joseph Lawler, son of CWN editor Phil Lawler) offering their perspectives.
When he addressed the commencement audience, Father John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, was in effect making his own observations on the controversy. Father Jenkins let his enthusiasm for President Obama show through clearly; it cannot be a coincidence that he used the word "hope" five times in his first five opening paragraphs. . .
Thread by NYer.
The New York Post reports that Fordham University concealed its decision to honor New York’s pro-abortion Mayor Michael Bloomberg from Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York.
Bloomberg received an honorary degree last weekend at Fordham’s commencement and also spoke briefly at the ceremony.
“Dolan was ‘unaware that the mayor was speaking/getting a degree’ at Saturday’s commencement at the Jesuit school’s Bronx campus, his spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, wrote in an e-mail yesterday,” the Post reported.
Fordham has a history of honoring pro-abortion public figures and of failing to consult with the archbishop of New York. Cardinal Edward Egan, who served as New York’s archbishop until he was succeeded last month by Archbishop Dolan, rebuked the university last fall after the Fordham School of Law bestowed an honor on pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. . .