MormonTimes.com: Mormon Media Observer: British newspaper's archives give LDS history
During a free limited-access period (registration is required) both historians and history buffs can get a sense of how journalists reported about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the pages of one of Great Britain's leading newspapers.
The Mormon Media Observer gives only a taste of more than 1,100 entries found using the search term "Mormon." It its pages you find coverage of the church move from the scurrilous and sensational to the more sincere and balanced.
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Waiting | Aug. 3, 2008 at 1:29 p.m.
?? This digital archive has been available for several years (at...
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