Progressive religious are largely getting ignored, states Paul Waldman, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects at Media Matters from America.

Read more about the Media Matters/Faith in Public Life study, Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in the Major News Media, in yesterday's post.

Katie Barge, Communications Director of Faith in Public Life, talks about solutions to the imbalance in faith voices in the MSM such as a Media Bureau full of progressive and centrist American religious leaders.

Rev. Brian McLaren, is a leader of the "emerging church" -- a Christian evangelical movement that seeks new ways to worship and understand the gospel in a postmodern era -- and Board Chairman for Sojourners/Call to Renewal. He notes the growing shift away from the "old guard" of evangelical issues toward interest in solving poverty, caring for creation, and ending the Iraq war.

Rev. Dr. Jim Forbes is the former Senior Pastor of The Riverside Church in New York City and host of The Time Is Now on Air America. He shares how his work in 2004 as a part of the Let Justice Roll campaign alerted him to this media bias against progressive faith voices.

Rabbi David Saperstein, the Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, notes that one reason for the lack of progressive lies in the false assumption that conservatives are more religious. In fact, there are more moderates who involved in their faith.

Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, points out that most members of congregations rest in the middle between the far sides of religio-political dialogue.

Alexia Kelley, Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the fullness of the Catholic social tradition in the public square.