A Pastor of Public Relations

As the 236 viewers of the Sept. 12, 2009, episode of the show may recall, Mr. Jones staged an anti-Islam protest on the last anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but the few reporters at that event, also attended by about 30 members of his church, were from local newspapers like The Gainesville Sun and The Independent Florida Alligator.

This year, thanks to the attention generated by the promise of a more televisual form of protest — the burning of about 200 copies of Islam’s holy book — national and international news crews and their satellite trucks are lined up on the lawn of the church Mr. Jones calls the Dove World Outreach Center.