Roman Catholics got 26.8% of the newspaper space devoted to church doings, Methodists 9.7%, Lutherans 8.6%, Presbyterians 7.8%, Episcopalians 7%, Baptists 5.6%, Jews 4.5%, other faiths 27.1%, according to a three-month survey of 56 leading daily papers published last week in The Lutheran. Church news occupied .7% of the total news space surveyed. Said the report:
"A kind of patronizing tolerance of religion as an incidental something is observed. Those who edit the church news do not show that they possess nearly so complete or accurate an understanding of this field as, for example, sports editors or music critics have of theirs."
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