When Tennessee pastor Andrew Hamblin was charged with a misdemeanor wildlife possession charge in connection with poisonous snakes he uses during services, the Times ran a 24-paragraph news article by a staff reporter, complete with two photographs taken "for the New York Times."
The pastor's exoneration is covered with a one-paragraph brief from the Associated Press picking up a report from the Knoxville News Sentinel. If the case was worth 24 paragraphs and two photos in the first place, isn't its disposition worth similarly detailed coverage? Or was the point just to depict Southern church-goers as a bunch of lawbreaking crazy people?