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CMI Daily Articles
ABC’s Good Morning America Exploits Sex… Again
• The premiere of Sex and the City, The Movie gives rise to another salacious news story.
Kristen Fyfe -- May 13, 2008
Librarians Against, and For, Censorship
• Challenging libraries to provide titles they’re not stocking would turn the tables and make people realize that librarians can also be censorious in the titles they choose not to display. The mere act of selecting some books and excluding others is a "censorious" act.
L. Brent Bozell III -- May 13, 2008
TIME: Have a Baby, Wreck the Environment
• If you have to have kids, at least reduce their carbon footprint.
Kristen Fyfe -- May 12, 2008
Planting the Seeds of a Demographic Winter
• If a two-person household is that bad, what does that make families with children? Environmental criminals, at the least, and maybe earth wreckers.
Robert Knight -- May 9, 2008
ABC’s Mother’s Day Gift to Viewers: A Same-Sex ‘Wedding’
• Brothers and Sisters is the first network series to showcase a same-sex union between regular characters. The show continues the network’s taboo-busting – or standards-eroding – trend in entertainment and news programming.
Kristen Fyfe -- May 9, 2008
CBS Evening News Touts Financial Discipline Expert, but Omits Her Faith Motivation
• Reporter Richard Schlesinger is surprised by the notion of giving 10% to charity, the Biblical principle of tithing.
Kristen Fyfe -- May 8, 2008
Walters Makes Light of Adultery in Autobiography
• News of Barbara Walters’ cheating past gets a free pass from Oprah and The Washington Post.
Colleen Raezler -- May 7, 2008
Applauding ‘Grand Theft’
• Yes, young lads, you can visit strip clubs and get lap dances, pick up prostitutes, go on assassination missions and conduct gangland-style executions. The New York Times applauded the game’s “winsome procession of grifters, hustlers, drug peddlers and other gloriously unrepentant lowlifes.”
L. Brent Bozell III -- May 7, 2008
Stars and Stripes, Newsweek Tut-Tut Concerns about Porn on Military Bases
• The big newsweekly suggests Congressman's motive for proposing a ban is re-election, not the welfare of the troops.
Kristen Fyfe -- May 7, 2008
NBC Showcases Heartthrob with a Message
• Bella star Eduardo Verastegui appeared on Today to promote the movie's DVD release, but revealed how he found deeper meaning in life than fame and fortune.
Colleen Raezler -- May 6, 2008
Taboo-Busting ABC Touts Sister-Brother Love
• Good Morning America jolts viewers awake with a puff piece on incest.
Scott Whitlock -- May 6, 2008
Newsweek Helps Obama Four Different Ways
• Magazine spares no efforts to help Obama over the Wright hurdle.
Kristen Fyfe -- May 6, 2008
Left Wing and Wright Brained?
• Liberal media pundits are trying to excuse Barack Obama’s 20-year ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright by suggesting that Wright’s ravings are no worse than a single comment by Jerry Falwell.
Robert Knight -- May 6, 2008
CW Blasphemes God (with a Wink and a Nod) in Ads for Teen Drama
• Gossip Girl campaign uses text-message shorthand over racy photos and videos.
Kristen Fyfe and Colleen Raezler -- May 5, 2008
Profiles in Cowardice, Unreported
• Smith College allows militant lesbians to silence a speaker; APA, pressured by gay activists, cancels a panel on therapy for homosexuals. Liberal media ignore both stories.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- May 2, 2008
CBS May Day Bouquet to the Castros
• On The Early Show, correspondent Liz Palmer describes Fidel Castro as “Cuba’s revolutionary hero” and lauds new dictator Raul Castro’s efforts to “improve workers’ lives.”
Brian Fitzpatrick -- May 1, 2008
A May Day for Feminism at the Post
• Women belong in combat, and mothers don't need husbands.
Robert Knight -- May 1, 2008
CBS’s Criminal Minds Smears Christians
• Gay son becomes serial killer because religious dad tried to beat him straight.
Colleen Raezler -- May 1, 2008
Obama’s ‘Pastor Souljah’ Moment
• Media hope Obama has put the Wright controversy behind him, but important questions yet unasked must be answered first.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 30, 2008
Miley Media Mania
• This picture spoke more than 1,000 words.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 29, 2008
On Sunday, ABC, CBS Showcase Atheist Suing Army
• Co-plaintiff gets unchallenged platform to claim military services have become ‘government-paid missionaries.’
Kristen Fyfe -- April 28, 2008
Expelled Critics: The Origin of Specious
• Many movie reviewers are offended by Ben Stein exposing the connection between Darwinism and the Nazis. They should do their homework.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- April 28, 2008
Media Take Sides in OK Lawmaker’s ‘Homophobia’ Flap
• An anti-Sally Kern rally of 300 made the New York Times. Almost no press mentions of the pro-Kern rally numbering at least 1,500.
Colleen Raezler -- April 28, 2008
NYT: Gay Bishop is ‘Normal,’ Opponents Are ‘Conservative’
• Reporter Laurie Goodstein never labels the Episcopal hierarchy, which has rejected Biblical teaching on homosexuality, as 'liberal.'
Kristen Fyfe -- April 25, 2008
Obama and the Hip-Hop Problem
• So Barack Obama is feeling like a pimp?
L. Brent Bozell III -- April 25, 2008
Hollywood Director: Jesus ‘Probably’ Fathered by Roman Rapist
• Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven is about to publish a ‘realistic’ biography of Christ, and hopes to follow with a movie.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 24, 2008
Abstinence Education: Bias on the Hill and in the Press
• Neither the LA Times nor Reuters reported that "comprehensive" sex education -- condoms and contraceptives -- receives 12 times more funding than no-sex-before-marriage programs.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 24, 2008
Gaiag Me with a Spoon
• No subject, not even Barack Obama and the New Camelot, inspires reporters to drop any pretense of balance and objectivity like the Environment.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 23, 2008
Expelled Opens with a Bang
• Big Media's reviewers panned the movie, but the public had the last laugh.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 23, 2008
They Read the Articles? Playboy Piece Wins Science Prize
• Skin mag staff writer gets ‘Honorable’ Mention for the Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award.
Tim Graham -- April 23, 2008
‘Bigger, Badder and Grosser’
• MTV brings Tila Tequila back for a second, misnamed Shot at Love.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 22, 2008
My Big Fat Green Wedding and Other Media Nonsense
• National Public Radio kicked off Earth Week with “a series of conversations about food’s footprint.” That’s right. Put down that cheeseburger and listen.
Robert Knight -- April 21, 2008
The Art of the Non-Apology
• TIME and HBO offend veterans and Catholics in the name of environmentalism and comedy. Too bad.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 21, 2008
Iwo Jima Vets Blast TIME's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover
• TIME editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change.'
Jeff Poor -- April 18, 2008
Character Questions
• ABC was right to ask about Obama’s judgment and patriotism, and Hillary’s honesty.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 18, 2008
Ben Stein vs. Sputtering Atheists
• I went into the screening of Expelled bored. I came out of it stunned.
L. Brent Bozell III -- April 17, 2008
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Remedy
• Condoms don't protect against HPV.
Robert Knight -- April 17, 2008
When Media Aren’t Ignoring Controversial Evolution Movie, Expelled, They’re Hostile
• New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times discussed Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth at least three dozen times before the documentary was released. Ben Stein’s Expelled? Two mentions.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 17, 2008
CNN’s ‘Compassion’ Forum Needed Ben Stein
• Why didn't Campbell Brown and Jon Meacham ask the tough questions?
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- April 16, 2008
What They Like
• If you are the parent of a kid who plays video games, this site’s for you.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 16, 2008
CosmoGirl! as a Religious Guide? Hardly
• Article discusses religion without a clear understanding of what religion really is.
Colleen Raezler -- April 16, 2008
Bias, Bias Everywhere as Media Ponder Pontiff
• There were too many examples of anti-Pope bias to list before Benedict even set foot on American soil.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 15, 2008
Evergreen Gore’s New TV Ad Is Holocaustic
• When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power. – Alston Chase
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- April 15, 2008
Obama’s Retiring Pastor: Jefferson a Pedophile
• The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s explosive accusation against Thomas Jefferson was not reported by the Associated Press and the Chicago Sun-Times, though the audio is on the newspaper’s Web site.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 14, 2008
For Obama, How Bitter It Is
• ABC, NBC soft-pedaled the candidate’s remark lumping religion in with racism, and ignored the message about his values.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 14, 2008
Bill Maher Slanders Pope Benedict XVI
• Comedian's HBO-sponsored hate speech is nothing new.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 14, 2008
German Director to Stage America-Bashing Opera on Set Depicting 9/11 Ruins
• Naked actors wearing only Mickey Mouse masks will represent penniless ‘victims of capitalism.’
Kristen Fyfe -- April 11, 2008
No Forgiving Charlton Heston
• Some media figures think it’s okay to hate somebody because he disagrees with their political beliefs.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 10, 2008
YouTube’s Great Influence, for Good and for Ill
• Inspiring ‘Last Lecture’ and vicious cheerleaders both go viral.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 9, 2008
Charlton Heston’s ‘Controversial’ Life
• Many journalists discount the late actor’s character because they disagree with his views.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 7, 2008
ABC Features Teen ‘Confessionals’
• Story explains why parents should “just say no” to Spring Break.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 7, 2008
Controlling Kids with a ‘Raised Eyebrow?’
• Washington Post columnist Marguerite Kelly advises a mother to ‘flee’ from her husband because he spanks their son.
Robert Knight -- April 7, 2008
Oprah Redefines Normal with Pregnant ‘Man’
• Media ignore the simple reality: Thomas Beatie is a woman.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 4, 2008
While Covering Lies by Hillary and Obama, Couric Smears McCain
• CBS ‘balances’ a story about whoppers told by the Democratic candidates by falsely depicting a McCain policy prediction as a lie.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 3, 2008
The Revolt Against Sincerity
• America is mired in the Snark Ages.
L. Brent Bozell III -- April 3, 2008
Networks Ignore Revealing Obama ‘Baby’ Gaffe
• Candidate doesn’t want daughters “punished with a baby.”
Brian Fitzpatrick -- April 2, 2008
Soldiers ‘Experiencing God’ a Problem for Newsweek
• The Beliefwatch column suggests we can’t have thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reading a Christian devotional book, lest people think the government favors a certain religion.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 2, 2008
Expelled Encounters Liberal Media Hostility
• Documentary exposes the academy’s emotional and ideological commitment to evolution, and its anti-scientific refusal to consider evidence for intelligent design.
Kristen Fyfe -- April 2, 2008
ABC Condemns Defender of Western Civilization
• Reporter calls Dutch politician ‘racist’ for opposing immigration and suggesting Judeo-Christian culture is superior to Islamic culture.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 31, 2008
ABC’s View Girls Skip Down the Yellow Brick Road with Obama
• Most panelists choose to coddle the candidate, not examine his character and values.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 28, 2008
CBS Early Show Gives Planned Parenthood Star Treatment
• Kate Walsh plays a doctor on TV. Who cares what she thinks about abstinence education and STDs?
Kristen Fyfe -- March 28, 2008
ABC Follows ‘Born Gay’ Script to a T
• Good Morning America promotes the latest gay gene study, and marginalizes the opposing scientific voice by labeling him as religious.
Robert Knight -- March 28, 2008
Dumbest Book of the Year
• Even liberals cannot trust the new book by Eric Alterman, Why We're Liberals.
L. Brent Bozell III -- March 27, 2008
NBC Touts New Do-It-Yourself Paternity Test
• Today Show fails to address the moral implications.
Colleen Raezler -- March 27, 2008
Washington Post Swoons over Hollywood Leftists Come to D.C.
• News media help entertainment media 'progressives' spread message about separating church and state.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 26, 2008
All They Need Is Love?
• ABC’s Good Morning America fails to ask hard questions when a transgendered ‘man’ announces ‘his’ pregnancy.
Colleen Raezler -- March 26, 2008
Oh, Those Naughty Broadcasters
• NBC pokes its finger in the FCC’s eye, and Fox says ‘No’ to paying fine.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 25, 2008
Networks Spurn Clinton-Obama Spat over Character and Values
• Reporters are more concerned about Democratic prospects in November than in telling the American people who Clinton and Obama really are.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 24, 2008
Spreading the Gospel of Godlessness
• The media gave atheism a free ride – and at times, outright promotion – in 2007.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 24, 2008
Hollywood’s Holy Week Christophobic Fantasy: Zealot Stones Mother to Death
• On NBC’s Law & Order, a college student influenced by a radical Christian youth minister murders his mother to save her soul after she commits adultery with a Muslim.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 22, 2008
FaithShatters: ABC Takes an Ill-Informed Whack at Creationists
• During Holy Week, the Nightline series “FaithMatters” ridicules Biblical literalists.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 21, 2008
Beyond Bunnies and Jelly Bellies: USA Today Explores True Meaning of Easter
• Article challenges popular definition of sin and allows Christians to cite the correct definition.
Colleen Raezler -- March 21, 2008
Does Profanity Reign Supreme?
• What Hollywood really wants – and in a cowardly way, is refusing to declare publicly – is the “right” to bombard your living room, and your children, with obscenities.
L. Brent Bozell III -- March 21, 2008
ABC’s Raddatz Recoils from True Political Leadership
• Reporter is appalled that Cheney refuses to base Iraq strategy on public opinion polls, as network coverage of the war’s fifth anniversary emphasizes costs, ignores benefits.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 20, 2008
Scoring Points by Demonizing Falwell
• Unlike Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell was no hater.
Robert Knight -- March 20, 2008
Obama Can Run, but He Can’t Hide Without Media Help – and They’re Helping
• The networks gloss over the candidate’s failure, in a crucial speech, to explain why he remained in a church that preaches hatred of America.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 19, 2008
Obama’s Church of Slurs
• Barack Obama looks phony either way. Either he missed all of these sermons or he sincerely thinks that hateful, race-baiting, America-bashing sermons are part of a pleasant Sunday worship experience. The press has an obligation to pursue this.
L. Brent Bozell III -- March 18, 2008
Keeping ‘Pigs’ Out of Your Parlor
• The Supreme Court will rule on "fleeting expletives" and broadcast indecency.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- March 17, 2008
Media Silence on the Myth of ‘Safe Sex’
• Here’s what the networks refuse to report: condoms are only partially effective, even when used perfectly, in preventing a host of STDs.
Robert Knight -- March 17, 2008
Here They Go A-Whoring: Media Pander Prostitutes, Pimps
• ABC’s World News is the first to go beyond titillation stories to report painful facts about the sex trade.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 14, 2008
Money Talks, but Will Hollywood Listen?
• A new study shows less profanity in film leads to higher profits for movie studios.
Colleen Raezler -- March 14, 2008
Lewis Black, Anti-Catholic Hack
• Black is the star of a brand new Comedy Central show named The Root of All Evil. Comedians act like prosecutors, with Black as judge, trying to determine which of two allegedly evil forces is worse. The battle for the debut episode: Oprah Winfrey vs. the Catholic Church.
L. Brent Bozell III -- March 14, 2008
Couric Shocked, Shocked! That 50% of Teen Girls Are Sexually Active, and 25% Have STDs
• An expert interviewed by CBS misses the link between ‘comprehensive’ sex ed and runaway rates of HPV.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 12, 2008
Thanks, “Kristen”
• The girl behind the Spitzer scandal deserves some media attention too.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 12, 2008
Reporting the Spitzer Scandal: The Good, the Bad and the Outrageous
• Jeff Greenfield tells it like it is; Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz says sweep it under the rug.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 11, 2008
Whoopi! ABC’s Goldberg Calls for Legalizing Prostitution
• The View’s hostess responds to the Spitzer scandal by arguing for decriminalizing the flesh trade, ignoring the pain of infidelity and the exploitation of vulnerable women.
Colleen Raezler -- March 11, 2008
Stand By Your Womanizer
• Hopefully, the Spitzer family will experience forgiveness and reconciliation. That takes time and work. But exploitation of the family by the one who broke the trust is hardly the right catalyst.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- March 11, 2008
ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Personal Responsibility for Foreclosures
• Four months after CMI released a study on debt coverage,only CBS addresses the character question in mortgage crisis stories.
Colleen Raezler -- March 10, 2008
ABC Highlights Gambler Suing Casinos for Enabling Addiction
• Good Morning America ditches character, personal responsibility.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 10, 2008
Washington Post Targets Mother in Tangled Tango Reporting
• A Virginia school system employee and her children have been exposed to retaliation for opposing a pro-gay children's book.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 7, 2008
Sermon from Mt. Obama Raises Big Questions
• Barack Obama has expounded his revised standard version of the Sermon on the Mount, but the MSM couldn’t care less if Obama waxes theological from here to eternity.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- March 7, 2008
ABC Spotlights ‘Woman’ Who Is Husband and Dad
• Good Morning America portrays transgenderism as just one of those “complicated choices.”
Kristen Fyfe -- March 6, 2008
Today Show Features Author Who Excuses Lying
• NBC host Meredith Vieira fails to stand up for character and truthtelling.
Colleen Raezler -- March 6, 2008
Rape Films at Yale
• Pornographer runs afoul of a force more powerful than Christianity, at least in Ivy League precincts: feminism.
L. Brent Bozell III -- March 6, 2008
Runaway Bridal Coverage
• Nets ignore crucial California Supreme Court case on same-sex 'marriage.'
Robert Knight -- March 5, 2008
'Aspirational TV?' Or More Cable Voyeurism?
• Bravo introduces Real Housewives of New York City.
Kristen Fyfe -- March 5, 2008
Media Spike Story on Obama Citing Jesus to Justify Same-Sex Civil Unions
• Not a single paper or network covers Obama rejecting the Book of Romans’ teaching on homosexuality.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- March 4, 2008
NBC’s Medium Casts Arizona Senator and Ex-POW as Murderer, Cannibal
• Are the writers trying to send a backhanded political message, or will next week’s episode feature a corrupt murdering female senator from New York?
Kristen Fyfe -- March 4, 2008
Clueless in Obama Nation
• On Sunday, at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sen. Obama promoted homosexual legal civil unions in answer to a question posed by a pastor, and then threw out this challenge: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”
Robert Knight -- March 3, 2008
The Sunday Washington Post on Satanic Rock: 'Two Horns Up!'
• This underlines how low the Post will go for Internet traffic numbers.
Tim Graham -- March 3, 2008
Network Jailbreak
• NBC, ABC and CBS loose their America-bashing impulse in stories on the U.S. incarceration rate.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 29, 2008
ABC Addresses ‘Moral Hazard’ of Government Bailouts
• Taxpayer-funded rescues for people facing foreclosure could encourage even greater financial risk-taking.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 29, 2008
NBC Focuses on Quality Family Time
• Today Show hosts highlight low-cost, low-tech ways for families to spend time together.
Colleen Raezler -- February 29, 2008
GMA: Is Victoria’s Secret Too Sexy?
• ABC un-coverage crams dozens of semi-dressed models and naked body parts into two minutes of morning television news.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 29, 2008
Bill Buckley Made It Okay to Be a Conservative
• I was a conservative as a kid, but fell under the sway of liberal profs and the New Age culture. But Buckley was a key force in pulling me back to reality.
Robert Knight -- February 27, 2008
Religion in America and on the Network News
• It’s always interesting to see how different news organizations report the exact same information.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 26, 2008
Oscar’s a Grouch this Year
• The Oscars flopped this year, along with all those anti-military, anti-Iraq War movies. Even Michael Moore went belly-up.
Robert Knight and Colleen Raezler -- February 26, 2008
It’s Sweeps Week -- ABC News to Focus on Sex Tonight
• For 20/20 it’s infidelity, for Nightline it’s the merits of porn.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 22, 2008
CBS Evening News Acknowledges that Premature Babies Feel Pain
• The network leaves one question unanswered: why do some physicians still say infants don’t feel pain?
Colleen Raezler -- February 22, 2008
FCC Complaint Filed Against NBC’s Las Vegas
• Show aired one day after Jane Fonda dropped the c-word on NBC’s Today.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 22, 2008
Doves vs. Oscars
• What do the Academy Awards -- and mainstream media movie critics -- have against family-friendly films?
L, Brent Bozell III -- February 22, 2008
The New York Times, John McCain, and the Abuse of Ethics Reporting
• By playing politics with a story, America's 'paper of record' has made it more difficult for journalists to keep politicians accountable for their moral conduct.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 21, 2008
Dear Abby, or Dear Dr. Ruth?
• A mother should accept her daughter making a living by running porn sites?
Robert Knight -- February 20, 2008
‘Dumb’ Americans
• Author Susan Jacoby attacks conservatives and religious believers while promoting new book.
Colleen Raezler -- February 20, 2008
Nets Ignore Michelle Obama’s Lack of Pride in America
• News shows do cover Barack Obama’s insignificant “plagiarism” spat with Hillary Clinton.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 19, 2008
Sex Education Veers the Wrong Way
• The Washington Post steers parents to a perfectly awful book about sex, Robie Harris's It's Perfectly Normal.
Robert Knight -- February 19, 2008
Nets Slam Gun Rights
• Following the Valentine’s Day shootings at NIU, the network tom-toms pounded out the familiar anti-Second Amendment beat – even taking whacks at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 18, 2008
Kids, Courage and Character
• Sometimes facing your fears can have unexpected results.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 18, 2008
ABC Goes to Yale for Sex Week
• Nightline co-anchor to moderate debate on porn.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 15, 2008
Disney's Titillation and Litigation
• Disney, the corporation that brought us Tinkerbell, has lawyers on staff arguing that nudity and obscenity on TV are OK.
L. Brent Bozell III -- February 15, 2008
Hillary, Queen of All Media
• How top American journalists kowtowed to Candidate Clinton.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 14, 2008
Morning Media’s Valentines to Vulgarity
• Jane Fonda drops the C-bomb on NBC’s Today Show, and ABC’s The View trots out bare-chested Chippendales and condoms.
Colleen Raezler -- February 14, 2008
Liar, Liar, Who’s the Liar?
• Baseball great Roger Clemens and his former trainer testify before Congress. While the media and America wonder which one lied, the real issue is what the scandal says about our culture.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 14, 2008
CNN Headline News Backs Transgenderism – For an 8-Year-Old
• Prime News host Richelle Carey’s piece was so biased, the TransYouth Family Advocates are using it to raise money.
Colleen Raezler -- February 13, 2008
Washington Post Sends Big Valentine to Multi-Partner ‘Relationships’
• Polyamory. It’s not about sex, it’s about loving yourself. Really? It may also be about redefining marriage.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 13, 2008
Turning Fool’s Gold Into the Real Thing
• Despite his short-term pledge of support, soon-to-be father McConaughey is telegraphing the message that he might or might not be around for the long haul.
Robert Knight -- February 12, 2008
It’s a Wrap! Hollywood Writers to Vote on Ending Strike Today
• So much for the culture’s reprieve from the nightly assault on traditional values delivered by fresh-off-the-keyboard television shows.
Kristen Fyfe -- February 12, 2008
‘Rehab’: Celebrity Mantra of 2007 – and Grammy Winner
• To the awards voters, ‘art’ trumps everything, even rotten messages.
Colleen Raezler -- February 11, 2008
Obama, Thomas and Liberal Bias
• The media paint the Supreme Court Justice's autobiography as "angry," but ignore the rage in the presidential candidate's autobiography.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- February 8, 2008
CBS and Devilish Dexter
• Dexter finds killing and dismembering human beings to be intoxicating. CBS thinks we, too, should be fascinated and intoxicated by that.
L. Brent Bozell III -- February 8, 2008
Stow the Chairs: Bobby Knight’s Gone
• In a time of ultra-sensitivity, when real men are advised to be more like the ladies, a lot of us were thinking (to ourselves) that there goes one untamed son of a gun, the kind of man that braved the Atlantic and settled the West.
Robert Knight -- February 8, 2008
Character, Personified
• Marine Sean Stokes exemplified courage, patriotism and selflessness in winning the Silver Star in Iraq.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 7, 2008
How the Media Stir the Brew of Identity Group Politics
• By focusing on race, class and gender voting, journalists are driving us apart, not bringing us together.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 6, 2008
CosmoGirl’s Pot Calls the Kettle Black
• The teen-oriented glossy takes a shot at Hollywood and Madison Avenue for pushing sex on young girls. Have they read their own magazine?
Colleen Raezler -- February 6, 2008
Media Stack the Deck for McCain and Obama on Culture Issues
• Journalists give their favorite candidates a pass when they play race, religion or gender cards, but jump on the rest.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- February 5, 2008
Charting the Public Cost of Celebrities
• The LAPD said in a statement Thursday that it used "a number of resources" in escorting the ambulance transporting Spears to UCLA Medical Center because of "previous, overly aggressive actions of some members of the media, and in particular members of the paparazzi," according to CBS News.
Robert Knight -- February 5, 2008
Super Bowl Ads Score with More Laughs but a Few Yecchs
• This year's broadcast toned down the sexy ads, pumped up the humor and connected for a touchdown with the Declaration of Independence.
Robert Knight -- February 4, 2008
ABC Casts Stones at Evangelical Financial Advisers
• Anchor Dan Harris challenges the ‘quality’ of advice proffered by counselors who apply Biblical principles to money, mortgages and credit cards.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- February 4, 2008
Who Knew? CBS Develops a Conscience on Britney
• Maggie Rodriguez announces The Early Show “will show extreme restraint” regarding paparazzi photos.
Colleen Raezler -- February 4, 2008
Choose-Life Movie Plots? They're Fictions, 'Consoling' and 'Cutesy'
• Only pro-abortion movies are honest about the lives of women, in the view of Washington Post movie reviewer Ann Hornaday.
Tim Graham -- February 1, 2008
CBS’s Couric Unloads Both Barrels at Religion
• Don’t trust those flock-fleecing televangelists – and keep that Bible far away from me!
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 31, 2008
CBS Reveals: John Edwards Influenced by Soviet-Linked Marxist I.F. Stone
• What book would the former Vice Presidential nominee bring into the White House? A book by a man so radical he blamed South Korea for starting the Korean War.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 30, 2008
America’s Tabloid Coliseum
• During the Roman Empire days, people would cram into coliseums to be entertained by gladiators fighting to the death. Have we created a modern American counterpart?
Colleen Raezler -- January 30, 2008
Take Two Pills and Reserve Your Place in Rehab
• NBC highlights prescription drug abuse, but only in the wake of tragedy.
Colleen Raezler -- January 29, 2008
Building Character One Boy at a Time
• NBC Nightly News spotlights one man’s effort to chart a new course for troubled boys.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 28, 2008
ABC News Pimping for Ratings
• For insight on Nevada presidential politics, most national journalists might turn to political science profs at UNLV or perhaps some local ink-stained wretches. Not ABC World News Saturday. They sent their fearless camera crews into a whorehouse.
Robert Knight and Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 28, 2008
Judging Churches for Being Judgmental
• The Wall Street Journal runs a hostile, one-sided article about church discipline.
Robert Knight -- January 28, 2008
Does Katie Couric Believe in Time Travel?
• CBS Evening News suggests the 2006 teen birth rate spike is somehow ‘connected’ to pro-life films released in 2007.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 25, 2008
Oscar Loves Juno?
• For once there is a movie whose message has brought cheers from both the pro-life and pro-choice camps. This is a good thing. Hollywood is applauding Juno. The public should applaud Hollywood for Juno, too.
L. Brent Bozell III -- January 25, 2008
'Recession' Presumption Leads to Stories on Thrift and Savings
• ABC’s Good Morning America highlights Biblically-based financial counseling.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 25, 2008
With the Digital Revolution, We Need to Rethink Privacy
• Society’s rules seem to be changing faster than people can keep up.
Colleen Raezler -- January 24, 2008
PBS Scoops ABC, NBC, CBS – Notices Thousands of Protesters Filling D.C. Streets
• Only Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour mentions the 35th Anniversary March for Life.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 23, 2008
On Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Decision, Law & Order: SVU Depicts Pro-Lifers as Hypocrites and Criminals
• Note to NBC: Not all pro-life activists are nut jobs who break the law to advance their mission.
Colleen Raezler -- January 23, 2008
ABC’s Pregnant Priorities
• Good Morning America presents a thoughtful look at a trio of teens who have had to grow up real fast.
Robert Knight -- January 22, 2008
To the Washington Post, Bill Clinton is a Man of Character
• The article gives an overall impression of a good man wronged, but still fighting for his valiant, equally wronged wife’s name and campaign prospects. It’s not that the Clintons lack character, the article implies, it’s that their opponents are out to get them.
Robert Knight -- January 21, 2008
NBC Painfully Faces an Inconvenient Truth: Men and Women are Different
• In a series on distinctions between the sexes, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams demonstrates how facts can be controversial to the liberal mind.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 19, 2008
Evangelists for Teen Sex
• The Midwest Teen Sex Show is a series of infomercials for 'comprehensive' adolescent indulgence.
L. Brent Bozell III -- January 18, 2008
Washington Post’s Bias Seeps Into Sex Ed Story
• Paper equates the Southern Baptist Convention with 'religious fundamentalism,' media shorthand for 'extremists.'
Robert Knight -- January 18, 2008
Abortion Rates Drop, Bias Doesn’t
• Washington Post quotes three pro-choice sources, but only one pro-life source.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 17, 2008
NBC Repeats CBS Piece Challenging U.S. Version of Strait of Hormuz Incident
• Are the networks so hard up for good America-bashing stories that they have to recycle something a rival ran five days before?
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 16, 2008
The ABCs of Entertainment News
• Why was Good Morning America unprepared when Diane Keaton dropped the f-bomb?
Robert Knight -- January 16, 2008
MySpace Announces New Safety Measures to Protect Children from Online Predators
• NBC shows parental involvement is still needed.
Colleen Raezler -- January 15, 2008
ABC Shock: Diane Keaton Drops F-Bomb on Good Morning America
• If the networks would use a tape delay, they could catch those celebrity expletives.
Scott Whitlock -- January 15, 2008
Media Mania Over Chump Change
• Most of us won’t allow a hairstylist to “change” our do without an in-depth explanation. But a lot of us are buying into undefined promises of “change” from presidential contenders.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- January 15, 2008
ABC: Three-Way, Alone, It’s All Okay
• The View’s ‘Hot Topics’ devolves into a raunchy game of truth or dare, minus the dare.
Colleen Raezler -- January 14, 2008
Eureka! Media Discover Fairness, Balance!
• Talking heads won’t take sides in Hillary-Obama race argument.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 14, 2008
‘You Have to Try to Fix It Yourself’
• ABC features an 11-year-old boy taking it upon himself to help feed Florida’s hungry.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 14, 2008
CBS Discredits Pentagon Version of U.S.-Iran Strait of Hormuz Incident
• A prime example of the globalist mentality infecting the elite media. Whatever happened to patriotism?
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 11, 2008
Lifetime Pushes 'Naked' Makeovers
• "It's fun running around all day in your underwear, isn't it?"
L. Brent Bozell III -- January 11, 2008
CBS Uses Teen Pregnancy Stats to Promote Midwest Teen Sex Show
• Calls explicit internet program a “popular health podcast.”
Kristen Fyfe -- January 10, 2008
Poll: Character of Candidates is Key to Voters
• Media virtually ignore survey results.
Brian Fitzpatrick -- January 10, 2008
The NBCs of Blasphemy
• Unrepentant comedienne Kathy Griffin to be showcased on Dateline
Robert Knight -- January 10, 2008
“F” is for Falsehood, Not Feminism
• CosmoGirl tries to rally young women to the feminist movement, using propaganda long ago debunked.
Colleen Raezler -- January 10, 2008
The Politics of Childbirth at ABC
• GMA's Juju Chang asks conservative The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck if her “views” have changed now that she’s a mom.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 9, 2008
Hollywood Writers Strike Comes Home to Roost
• Golden Globes cancelled, violent Dexter comes to CBS from Showtime, and an onslaught of reality programming on tap.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 8, 2008
Are Connecticut Justices, Hartford Courant Courting Same-Sex Marriage?
• The state’s largest newspaper, and the oldest in the nation, The Hartford Courant, hasn’t covered the case on its news pages since it was argued last May. But that doesn’t mean the paper has kept its bias in the closet.
Jan LaRue, Esq. -- January 8, 2008
Sex on a Plane: MTV Runs Ad Showering Airline Passengers with Condoms
• San Francisco Planned Parenthood chapter uses gay character to pitch the pill, the patch and latex.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 4, 2008
Tila Success Inspires More Trash TV
• Second 'Shot at Love,' plus a new spin-off, a transgender dating show, and an attempt by Cher to capitalize on daughter's lesbianism are in the works.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 3, 2008
What Does 'Family Friendly' Mean?
• Apparently in today's TV landscape it includes bloody murders and dialogue filled with sexual slang.
L. Brent Bozell III -- January 3, 2008
Moviegoers Skip the Atheist Pixie Dust
• December’s box office indicates American audiences want entertainment, not controversy.
Colleen Raezler -- January 2, 2008
Post Uses Same-Sex 'Divorce' to Push Gay 'Marriage'
• Sympathy-generating liberal bias documents the "trauma" of gay divorce.
Kristen Fyfe -- January 2, 2008
CNN Hypes Christian Symbol in Another Huckabee Ad
• Fish on banner nets more critical attention.
Tim Graham -- January 2, 2008
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