July 21, 2010 • Salon Writer Wants More Abortion on TV Liberal web magazine calls lack of abortion of TV 'insane,' defends controversial 'Family Guy' abortion episode
March 2, 2010 • USA Today Reports on Porn Industry’s Financial Woes Jon Swartz highlights the problems that are causing the porn industry of suffer financially, but fails to detail the problems with the porn industry.
February 9, 2010 • Anne Hathaway Leaves Church to Media Cheers Actress cites Catholic position on homosexuality; USA Today and The Huffington Post call the Church ‘intolerant.’
November 19, 2009 • Newsweek’s Lisa Miller Labels Passion of the Christ 'Anti-Semitic' Magazine ranked Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin, the beginning of American Idol, and the death of Michael Jackson ahead of movie on list of Top 10 cultural moments in the last decade.
May 27, 2009 • Jon and Kate Plus The Media CBS’ ‘The Early Show’ sympathizes with the exploited Gosselins before do some exploiting of its own.
May 22, 2009 • A Tale of Two Violent Movies Hollywood’s business decisions show where their religious and political sensibilities overrule their business sense - and any sense of right and wrong.
May 4, 2009 • Opie Gets Ugly When the conglomerates behind the viciously anti-Catholic book "The DaVinci Code" were looking for a director, Newsweek reported Ron Howard had a secret weapon: his aw-shucks child-star Opie Taylor likeability. "Ron is not a polarizer," said one. "We all knew the book was quite controversial, and we were ready for that. But we didn’t want to add to it."
In that same article in 2006, it became clear that Howard wasn’t going to make the film less vicious (or less filled with historical lies and distortions) than the book. There would be "no placating. It would be ludicrous to take on this subject and try to take the edges off. We’re doing this movie because we like the book." (Emphasis his.)
This is where the aw-shucks routine goes out the window. It’s one thing to say you like a good mystery with historical overtones. It’s another thing to say you like a fiction book that paints the Catholic Church as an evil nest of lying murderers conspiring to protect the lie that Jesus Christ is God.
Then consider that "DaVinci Code" author Dan Brown repeatedly has claimed that his wild-eyed conspiracy theories are true. The book even carried the statement that "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate."
Now "no-placating" Howard is back, pushing a new movie version of a Brown book called "Angels & Demons." In a nasty article on the Huffington Post website, Howard spat at William Donohue of the Catholic League: "I guess Mr. Donohue and I do have one thing in common: we both like to create fictional tales, as he has done with his silly and mean-spirited work of propaganda."
As the psychologists say, Ron Howard is projecting. That is a perfect summary of the Dan Brown novels: silly and mean-spirited works of propaganda.
Howard claims "neither I nor ‘Angels & Demons’ are anti-Catholic. And let me be a little controversial: I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church, will enjoy the movie for what it is: an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome."
That’s not controversial. It’s insane. It’s a tactic, just like Howard’s partner Brian Grazer reacted during the "DaVinci" publicity tour in 2006, when Katie Couric asked him how the group Opus Dei would respond to its portrayal. They were dishonestly and ridiculously painted as a murderous cult, but Grazer said with a straight face: "I think they’ll be happy with the movie, ultimately."
Howard complained that the Catholic League "accuses us of lying when our movie trailer says the Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence the Illuminati centuries ago. It would be a lie if we had ever suggested our movie is anything other than a work of fiction."
Check the "we" and the "ever" in that sentence. Howard is easily exposed as dishonest by a sentence on Dan Brown’s own website about the book: "It is historical fact that the Illuminati vowed vengeance against the Vatican in the 1600's. The early Illuminati - those of Galileo’s day - were expelled from Rome by the Vatican and hunted mercilessly." (Emphasis mine.)
The trailer lies exactly like that. The announcer introduces the Tom Hanks character: "He exposed one of the greatest coverups in human history." A woman whispers "DaVinci!" Hanks explains: "The Illuminati were a secret society dedicated to scientific truth. The Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence them forever." At the end of the trailer, Hanks proclaims: "This is it. This is the truth!"
So who is doing the lying, Opie?
Movie watchers are going to think large chunks of this story are actual human history, and the trailer has no disclaimer about how this scientist-murdering-church narrative is pure fantasy. The real Illuminati originated in Bavaria in 1776 (long after Galileo died) and fizzled out a decade later. The Catholic Church never murdered a single member of the Illuminati.
A Catholic blogger who calls himself the Curt Jester ably underlined how audacious and ridiculous Howard sounds. He satirically proclaimed his own film project: "I am producing a movie on Ron Howard’s family. In the movie based on my research I say his father was a drug pusher, and his mother is a prostitute, and that Ron Howard engages in S&M....I will present the Howard family as something totally based on lies, and question whether his parents really were his parents in the first place." And "of course this is just a movie, so people should not be upset about my portrayal of the Howard family at all."
He then predicted the Howard family would enjoy it as an exciting mystery. Ron Howard should read this and understand exactly what his cinematic versions of Dan Brown hate-speeches feel like to Catholics.
PS: See Andrew Leigh at Big Hollywood, especially the part where Howard & Co. are trying to tamp down any offense taken by Muslims.
April 24, 2009 • Headline News Anchor Defends Perez Hilton's Vulgar Comments CNN Headline News defended Perez Hilton’s crude remarks against Miss California USA Carrie Prejean: 'Why is it that people should be very polite when they’re told that they’re second-class citizens?'
March 10, 2009 • Cheap and Easy: TV Providers Stimulate Sales with Salacious Sex
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with pornography sales because the economy is just that bad.
February 27, 2009 • A Commercial for Adultery? A dating service for married people claims it's not enabling cheaters. Their slogan, "Life's short, have an affair," says otherwise.
February 25, 2009 • 'Access Hollywood' Acts Holier Than Thou
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February 23, 2009 • Oscars Recipe: Mixing 'Milk' With Politics
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The Academy Awards were predictably pro-gay and anti-God.
February 20, 2009 • And the Oscar Goes to … Liberal Propaganda! Box office numbers show lack of interest in year’s nominated films. Maybe people want to be entertained, not indoctrinated?
February 17, 2009 • At It Again: Calvin Klein Puts Out Orgy Ads, Media AWOL
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Group sex is the latest subject of a banned ad campaign by
the controversial designer jeans company.
February 13, 2009 • The Other Side of Disgust New York Times Magazine contributor Daniel Bergner defends sexual deviancy in his new book.
February 12, 2009 • Another Strike Out for Baseball Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez admits to using steroids but networks largely failed to call it cheating.
February 9, 2009 • 51st Grammys: Another Obama Lovefest The academy President repeats Obama's 'Yes we can' chant five times, and calls upon him to create a cabinet position, 'Secretary of the Arts.'
January 29, 2009 • NBC: Pro-Life Ad is ‘Political,’ PETA Ad is Not Network says it won’t accept issue advocacy ads for Super Bowl, but applies different standard for radical animal rights group.
January 19, 2009 • Michelle Obama, First Recessionista? The new First Lady’s fashion choices may be affordable in the eyes of the media but they still remain out of the budget of many average people.
January 9, 2009 • A Tale of Two Ceremonies One celebrates movies that people actually watch and the other celebrates movies that critics think people should watch.
January 8, 2009 • Stop the Politicking and Start Entertaining The people have spoken. They don't want their entertainment serves with a side of politics. But some in Hollywood just aren't listening.
January 8, 2009 • Stop the Politicking and Start Entertaining The people have spoken. They don't want their entertainment served with a side of politics. But some in Hollywood just aren't listening.
December 31, 2008 •For Media, 2008 Was Year of Hollywood Values Celebrity breakdowns and comebacks, love triangles and teen pregnancy were the most covered entertainment stories.
December 23, 2008 •Merry ******mas Nearly three-quarters of Christmas songs performed on morning shows are secular.
December 18, 2008 • "New Tube" vs. Old Tube One study reveals teens watch less TV than older generations but another study finds access to racy material is just “a click away.”
December 16, 2008 • Macabre Soda Ad Finds Suicide Funny Pepsi yanks a disturbing print campaign depicting “lonely calorie” character taking his life.
December 15, 2008 •
SNL Blindly Offends on “Weekend Update” NBC tastelessly pokes fun at a visually impaired governor and makes him appear incompetent.
December 15, 2008 • Farewell to Liberalism's Legal Advocate ABC's Boston Legal was little more than liberal propaganda thinly disguised as entertainment. Conservatives shouldn’t be heartbroken to see it go.
December 5, 2008 • Barbara Walters Betrays ‘Fascinating’ Bias During her “Ten Most Fascinating People” special, ABC’s news doyenne tolerates a pregnant pseudo-man, an outspoken cultist, a scandal-beset adolescent actress and a liberal president-elect, but judges a conservative talk show host and a conservative politician.
December 4, 2008 • The New Hollywood Blacklist Only someone utterly ignorant would make a video where Jesus sounds like a lawyer for the ACLU.
December 2, 2008 •The View: Still Pounding on Palin ABC’s morning news chatters still won’t acknowledge that the media deliberately tarnished the image of the GOP vice presidential nominee.
December 2, 2008 • Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! WaPo fetes an artist whose Bush-bashing ornament is hanging on the White House Christmas tree
November 28, 2008 • The Toxic Tube Made Them Do It Kids spend more time with media than they do anything else, except sleep. Why are we surprised it impacts their behavior?
November 20, 2008 • Hollywood’s Ridiculous Lawyers Hollywood’s lawyers are arguing against the FCC’s legalistic definition of profanity (and common sense) when they suggest that when people use the F-word, it doesn’t always have a sexual connotation.
November 17, 2008 • Hollywood’s Morals ≠ America’s Morals A new poll confirms a CMI study’s findings that Americans believe their moral values are being assaulted by Hollywood and the national media.
November 11, 2008 •Boston Legal’s Balanced Look at Abortion Last night’s episode featured arguments in favor of abortion but also acknowledged the longterm damage done to women and men alike.
November 10, 2008 •‘Access’ Denied to Prop 8 Supporters A popular entertainment news show, Access Hollywood, provides a platform only for celebrities in favor of same-sex marriage.
November 7, 2008 •Access Hollywood Serves Up One Palin-Bashing Story, Two Kisses for Obama Movie stars go gaga over Obama; Palin allegedly spent more than 150K on clothes and spoke with McCain staffers clad only in a towel; Obama to buy a puppy for his daughters.
October 10, 2008 • Fox’s Lying, Slacker Jesus The people at Fox Entertainment clearly don’t care one iota about offending the millions of Christians who see Jesus as the central figure in their hopes for eternal salvation. To them, God is just an empty punch line.
October 9, 2008 • The Bad, the Good and the Ugly Three breaking stories expose the developing cult of personality in America, and the harm being inflicted on our culture by the media.
September 26, 2008 • AMC Chains Up Hounddog Theaters refuse to show movie with rape of 9-year-old character, while critics gush over girl's performance.
September 19, 2008 • Who's The Library Bully? According to the ACLU, not displaying "The Joy of Gay Sex" violates the constitutional rights of library visitors.
September 11, 2008 • Coffee, News and S-bombs Another guest’s use of an expletive on the Today Show highlights the need to use time delays during live broadcasts.
August 15, 2008 • Ellen to Wed Portia; What about DOMA? The Hollywood same-sex nuptials give the media a tremendous opportunity to address the issue of same-sex ‘marriage,’ the Defense of Marriage Act and Democratic support of California’s gay marriage ruling. Will they take it?
August 14, 2008 • TV's Contempt for Marriage The problem for Hollywood is that marital sex just isn’t naughty enough for envelope pushers.
August 12, 2008 •Dark Knight: the Pornography of Violence The latest Batman movie showcases violence, betrayal and sadism in the name of frivolous entertainment.
August 8, 2008 • ABC Article Glamorizes Media Villains, Ignores Price to Society ABC’s Sona Charaipotra hails villains in entertainment as more “exciting,” “interesting,” and more real, but ignores the damage Hollywood’s obsession with evil can do to children.
August 6, 2008 • ABC Tells Story of Faith in Tragedy Good Morning America explores how religious belief is helping the Steven Curtis Chapman family cope with the death of their daughter.
August 5, 2008 • Let’s Talk About Sex Newsweek provides great tips for parents on how to talk to young teens about sex but needs to emphasize parental monitoring of teens’ entertainment choices.
August 1, 2008 • Jerry Springer, Opera Man? This spectacle’s defenders suggest this isn’t a mockery of Christianity. That’s about as plausible as a Klansman saying the burning cross is merely for roasting marshmallows.
July 29, 2008 • Judges Favor the Profane In effect, the court said that because the Enforcement Bureau of the FCC has been a steady, ongoing farce of decency protection for thirty years, it must always and forever remain a joke.
July 25, 2008 • WaPo Snickers as Sacrilegious Show Comes to D.C. Even as a Catholic group protests the premiere of “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” The Washington Post raises little concern over the show’s content.
July 22, 2008 • Court Punts Super Bowl Indecency Ruling Back to FCC All the FCC needs to do is inform broadcasters that "fleeting images" of nudity constitute actionable indecency, and it intends to enforce the rules.
July 22, 2008 • Dark, Dark Knight Kids have lost a role model who embodied good character and helped them understand the difference between right and wrong.
July 21, 2008 • A Guide to the Movie Galaxy Dr. Thomas Hibbs finds a silver lining in Hollywood’s dark cloud of despair.
July 19, 2008 • Blue Summer Hollywood is peddling sex like crazy this season even though the sexualization of our culture is exacting a fearsome toll, especially on young girls.
July 18, 2008 • ABC’s The View Gets Hot and Heavy Barbara Walters and her fellow panel members on waded knee-deep into sex this week, moving from porn to vibrators to S&M Barbie.
July 17, 2008 • ‘Bi-Curious’ Summer Hollywood calculates how to profit from pushing the envelope.
July 11, 2008 • Catfighting ‘Uber-Divas’ Get a Reality Show N Network’s Queen Bees features “mean girls” in need of a personality makeover -- and makes poor character the focus of entertainment.
July 8, 2008 • Jesse Helms and Mangled Manners Leftwingers in the news media and the blogosphere embarrassed themselves with meanspirited slurs directed at the fallen American patriot.
July 3, 2008 •Weeds and Marijuana Chic Hollywood is glamorizing pot smoking, despite the evidence of the drug's danger.
July 2, 2008 • Exposé or Exploitation? ABC Family’s new show on teen pregnancy attempts to walk the line between cautionary tale and entertaining programming - and fails.
June 20, 2008 • NBC’s Today Showcases Edgy Singer Rihanna Kathie Lee Gifford called Rihanna an “absolute doll.” What about the sexually suggestive songs she performed before an audience peppered with children?
June 20, 2008 • The New TV Trend: Call Girls Hollywood’s champions of immorality always say they’re exploring the “gray” areas of morality. Now they’ve transcended even that. They are actively depicting evil as good.
June 18, 2008 • ABC Reporter Sides with Hollywood against Rome Good Morning America’s Nick Watt sneers at the Vatican for refusing to allow a Catholic-bashing movie to be filmed in historic churches.
June 6, 2008 • Nightmare on Prom Street Since when do principals ask their students not to simulate anal sex in public dances?
June 5, 2008 • Media Hype CBS Wife-Swapping TV Series “Swingtown” The press is praising the show’s artistic qualities and ignoring the social costs of broadcasting sexually explicit content and promoting sex outside of marriage.
June 3, 2008 • Sex and the Skittish Newsweek seems to lament how the movie isn’t outrageous enough. The headline is Girls Gone Mild.
May 16, 2008 • Swaggering Swingtown CBS looks to set new records in broadcast debauchery.
May 15, 2008 • Religion: How ABC Loathes Thee Boston Legal episode is a vehicle for anti-religious propaganda under the guise of entertainment.
May 14, 2008 • Junking the Real Meaning of Art: RIP Mr. Rauschenberg Inspired by Rauschenberg’s success and unbound by considerations of skill or beauty, a generation of artists was freed to slap together virtually anything and call it Art.
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.
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.”
May 6, 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.
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.
April 29, 2008 • Miley Media Mania This picture spoke more than 1,000 words.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 27, 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.
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.
February 22, 2008 • Doves vs. Oscars What do the Academy Awards -- and mainstream media movie critics -- have against family-friendly films?
February 20, 2008 • Dear Abby, or Dear Dr. Ruth? A mother should accept her daughter making a living by running porn sites?
February 20, 2008 • ‘Dumb’ Americans Author Susan Jacoby attacks conservatives and religious believers while promoting new book.
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.
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 Chippendales and condoms.
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.
February 12, 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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
January 25, 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.
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.
January 10, 2008 • The NBCs of Blasphemy Unrepentant comedienne Kathy Griffin to be showcased on Dateline
January 9, 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.
January 3, 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.
January 3, 2008 • What Does 'Family Friendly' Mean? Apparently in today's TV landscape it includes bloody murders and dialogue filled with sexual slang.
December 28, 2007 • Winners and Losers of 2007 A look at some of the entertainment triumphs and tragedies of 2007.
December 21, 2007 • The B-Word Book Craze If it wasn’t so commercially calculated, it might sound like Tourette ’s syndrome.
December 12, 2007 • Another Twisted Christmas Red Bull commandeers the Nativity for a commercial, and the BBC corrupts the Nativity into a politically correct pop concert.
December 6, 2007 • Movie Reviewer Not Satisfied by Presence of ‘Choice’ Entertainment Weekly film critic bemoans the absence of pro-abortion propagandizing in Juno, even though the pregnant protagonist seriously considers abortion.
December 4, 2007 • Christmas Greetings from the Left Pole With Sweeney Todd and Charlie Wilson just in time for “Christmas,” the Hollywoodites at the left pole would like us to forget that they’re anti-Christian, anti-war and anti-conservative.
December 4, 2007 • Going Off a Cliff at the Chronicle A San Francisco columnist explains why he loves The Golden Compass -- because he hates religion and religious people. Why does an ostensibly mainstream newspaper like the Chronicle publish such venomous hate speech?
December 3, 2007 •
The Golden Compass and the Atheist Blitzkrieg Every dollar spent on the movie and its merchandise increases the likelihood that the entire God-hating trilogy will make it to your local theater - so that untold numbers of children will be propagandized by a story that attacks traditional religious beliefs.
November 30, 2007 •The Golden Compass Points Kids the Wrong Way Unfortunately, this is part of being a responsible parent today. You have to be a kind of cultural food-taster for your children. Borrow Mr. Pullman’s three books from your local library -- we don’t advise you to buy them -- and see for yourself what's in them.
November 30, 2007 • What Children Watch The network chieftains approving all this “adult” TV would assert that it’s unreasonable for parents to think their children aren’t exposed to this kind of “reality” in their daily lives at school or in the neighborhood. But if parents worry about the problem of “monkey see, monkey do,” nobody’s a bigger monkey to children than Hollywood.
November 28, 2007 •Newsweek Writer Enjoys Atheist Denouncing the Conservative 'Nitwit' At this point a critic must ask: as much as he enjoyed the denunciation of Donohue, did Gordon check out Pullman’s assertion of having no greater agenda than telling a rip-roaring tale? Even Snopes.com thinks Pullman’s hostility to religion is no urban legend.
November 21, 2007 • Glamour's Women of the Year Lean Left Focusing solely on inspirational liberal women short changes conservative women looking for role models.
November 19, 2007 • Praying for Hollywood ABC positively reports on a prayer network for celebrities but can't avoid the tabloid trap.
November 19, 2007 •Bella Does it Again Thanks to grassroots efforts, the independent pro-life movie secures box office distribution for the biggest movie weekend of the year.
November 16, 2007 • Will Barry Bonds Get Off the Low Road? Will the slugger do what’s best for baseball and for the nation, and accept responsibility for what he’s done? Or will he continue his selfish, feeble effort to protect himself?
November 16, 2007 • The Shameless Spring Break Porn King Joe Francis sees himself as a historic victim: his incarceration is “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever.” Nazi holocaust, Stalinist purges, Khmer Rouge massacres? Move over.
November 9, 2007 • The Golden Compass Fraud Isn’t it a bit perverse to head into the Christmas holiday season hyping an atheist fantasy movie for kids?
November 5, 2007 • The Singing Revolution Celebrates Freedom How many of us knew that Estonia, one of the smallest countries on the face of this earth, is responsible for one of the most extraordinary, and certainly the most unique revolutions in modern history? How many of us knew that this tiny Baltic nation defeated the Soviet Union - with a song?
November 2, 2007 • Satire or Childish Blasphemy? Sarah Silverman portrays God as an arrogant, pot-smoking, foul-mouthed boyfriend she can't wait to dump.
October 30, 2007 • Skank-o-ween 2007 For young girls, the costume trend is all about being sexy.
October 29, 2007 •Bella to Anti-War Movies: Show Me the Money! The independent pro-life film trounced Hollywood's anti-war movies in per-theater revenues, in spite of hostile mainstream media reviews.
October 26, 2007 • What Would Jesus Download? GodTube’s video of the little girl reciting Psalm 23 has been viewed four million times.
October 25, 2007 •Bella and the Pro-Life Film Trend Movie critics will probably hate Bella, since it doesn’t even have oodles of sex and profanity in it to keep them entertained. Variety already booed: “Manipulative pic trades in fairy-tale views of New York life alongside briefly sustained emotional confessions.” So what does Main Street think of Bella? Preview audiences repeatedly have given it standing ovations.
October 24, 2007 • Dumbledoring Down the Culture A Culture and Media Institute review of 125 stories on Nexis from Friday through Tuesday turned up only one source - an online Scottish edition of The Express - that included a single critic of Rowling’s decision. The rest either took a neutral line or liberally quoted activists who hail the fact that Dumbledore’s likeability and moral authority will help sell acceptance of homosexuality.
October 22, 2007 • An Army of Three? Army Recruiting Goes Astray Keep in mind that the law Congress enacted in 1993 bars homosexuals in the military, period. And the Clinton-era policy watering down that law, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," still bars open homosexuality. So why is the Army advertising on a program that promotes lesbianism and also takes shots at male "homophobia?"
October 19, 2007 • Mainers and No-Brainers The lesson from the anything-goes crowd is so illogical it borders on the obscene. In order to “protect the youth” from unsavory sexual messages, we should provide them with all the technology so they can have “safe sex” - even at age 11.
October 11, 2007 • Tila Tequila: the Latest in MTV Sexploitation Like all reality shows, this one suffers from noticeable scripting, which must have been done by drooling old men in raincoats.
October 8, 2007 •Cold Case Is Cold Hearted Toward Amish During the anniversary week of the Lancaster County massacre, CBS's drama blames the 'oppressive' Amish culture for the murder of an Amish girl.
October 4, 2007 • CBS’s Cold Case Adds Insult to Injury Last Sunday they savaged evangelical Christians. This Sunday, one year after the Lancaster County schoolhouse massacre, they’ll poke their fingers in the eyes of the Amish.
October 3, 2007 • Film of Abortion Aftermath Too Hard for 'Angry' Film Critic to Take "I suggest the faint of heart skip the rest of this paragraph," warned New York Times movie reviewer Manohla Dargis before relaying the graphic details of the aftermath of an abortion. "My initial and admittedly angry first thought about these images was that the director, Tony Kaye, was just resorting to shock tactics."
October 3, 2007 • Two Lewd Tuesdays Oprah promotes, Whoopi volunteers for irresponsible sex.
October 2, 2007 • The Frustrated Family Hour Since 2000-2001, violent content during the family hour has increased 52 percent. Sexual content is up 22 percent.
October 1, 2007 • A Modern-Day Stoning?!? Cold Case Smears Christian Kids CBS’s entertainment division portrays devout teens as murderers and hypocrites and their youth pastor as a pervert, while taking cheap shots at abstinence education.
October 1, 2007 • Irresponsible Adults and ‘Artistic’ Perverts When adults abdicate responsibility as protectors of children and vanguards of public morality and decency, children become the nation’s most endangered species. When adults equate legal with moral, appropriate and acceptable, perversion can find patronage.
September 28, 2007 • The Scoundrel Song of David Banner No matter how pornographic his lyrics, no matter how many kids he helps to corrupt, no matter how callously he maligns fellow citizens as "niggas" and "hoes" and no matter how coarsely he portrays black urban culture as an open sewer, he has a ready explanation: It's somebody else's fault, not his.
September 24, 2007 • The Death of Sportsmanship Rutgers University is known as the birthplace of college football, but in the last few weeks it’s seemed more like the deathplace of sportsmanship.
September 18, 2007 • Embarrassing Celebrity Pundits A key measure we have for punditry in our political culture is fame, not a display of any brains.
September 7, 2007 • In-Flight Fright Chalk up a new outrage. The airlines are now airing graphically violent and sexualized R-rated movies, and it matters not a bit to them that children cannot help but sit there and watch, headphones or not.
August 31, 2007 • ‘Dr. 90210' - or Dr. Crotch? What compels anyone at this network, from the CEO to the lowliest of interns, to associate himself with this product?
August 24, 2007 • The Ascent of 'Torture Porn' We wondered then if a "civilized" society could ever accept this genre in the open. It’s worth asking again because we are inching ever closer to it.
August 21, 2007 • The MTV Disconnect The network’s own survey shows that family and faith, not sex, are what make young Americans happy. Guess what’s on the nightly broadcast schedule.
August 20, 2007 • Kick Vick Out The Atlanta Falcons superstar will plead guilty to running a dog fighting operation. He has forfeited his right to enjoy the limelight of the NFL.
August 17, 2007 • Out This Weekend: High School Musical 2 The squeaky-clean first movie was a smash hit. When will Hollywood learn that films without sex and obscene language frequently sell like hotcakes?
August 17, 2007 • The World According to the TV Critics Showtime’s new series, Californication, blatantly and obscenely blasphemes Christianity and insults the Catholic Church - and not a single major media critic even notices.
August 10, 2007 • The Fall Season in TV Legislation To say that Hollywood’s apologists are running out of gas is an understatement. All they have left is hot air.
August 8, 2007 • 756* Barry Bonds is responsible for cheating his fans, his fellow players, and himself.
August 7, 2007 • Babies and TV Screens Don’t Mix U. Washington study finds that watching DVDs and television costs toddlers six to eight vocabulary words per hour.
July 23, 2007 • The Latest Shock and Awe When critics asked if the sex scenes [in HBO's new show, Tell Me You Love Me] were faked or real, actress Michelle Borth became suddenly defensive. “We are not porn stars. We're actors,” she harrumphed.
July 6, 2007 • Worshiping Gaia and the Goracle Professionalism goes out the window as Big Media swoons over Al Gore and his Live Earth extravaganza.
June 29, 2007 • Grand, Old, and Pitiful When the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on children and TV violence on June 26, it was the Democrats taking the entertainment industry to task as socially irresponsible, while Republicans in general favored the do-nothing approach.
June 27, 2007 • See Some Evil, Hear Some Evil Nets cover Capitol Hill NFL violence hearings, turn a blind eye to TV violence hearings.
June 22, 2007 • Paris Hilton to Make Pokey Time Pay Off For 25 days or so of indignity the heiress will turn over a quick million bucks, thanks to checkbook journalism. Has NBC lost its collective mind?
June 22, 2007 • 'Conservatives' for Sleaze TV This kind of conservative has embraced the anarchical libertarian worldview ... that the “market” - society’s lowest common denominator on cultural issues - should decide. And if this erosion of traditional values leads to the disintegration of the culture, so be it.
June 15, 2007 • South Park Filth Fest This weekend millions of families will be exposed to South Park’s “most foul-mouthed, sexually offensive” programs, courtesy of Comedy Central.
June 15, 2007 • Hillary vs. Hollywood Hollywood’s muck-makers are advised to see the writing on the wall. When Hillary Clinton is scolding you in the headlines, maybe it’s time to shape up.
June 11, 2007 • Media Dislike Pro-Life Messages in Mainstream Movies Why is it when Hollywood decides to address the subject of complicated pregnancies, the liberal media have to carp if the directors opt not to promote abortion?
June 8, 2007 • Judges vs. the FCC The federal judges who ruled against the FCC suggested the agency’s rulings were "arbitrary and capricious." But is there anything more arbitrary and capricious than an egotistical celebrity dropping the F-bomb on national TV? Or the network refusing to administer a tiny delay?
June 7, 2007 • Does Watching TV Damage Character? The Culture and Media Institute's new Special Report, The Media Assault on American Values, reveals that media messages appear to be undermining the pillars of America’s cultural edifice: strength of character, sexual morality and respect for God.
June 6, 2007 • Medved Lauds New Culture Survey Leading Hollywood critic says quantity, not just quality, of viewing affects TV watchers.
June 5, 2007 • Max Hardcore is No Steven Spielberg Seriously, DOJ. Why make a self-proclaimed peddler of porn he boasts is “nastier and more vulgar than ever before seen” sound like a legitimate filmmaker? It’s like describing Al Capone as an entrepreneur with a beverage company.
May 31, 2007 • Barroid! Irresponsible steroid use by pro athletes leads to invasive Texas law.
May 30, 2007 • The Revolving Rehab Door The cult of celebrity. The politics of victimhood. Narcissism. All speak to a complete lack of personal responsibility. And all serve as great fodder for readers hungry to peek into the messed up lives of celebrities. Somehow this is “news.”
May 18, 2007 • Radio Plays Rape for Laughs Ask yourself this very simple question: How does the Imus “ho” comment match on the horror scale with this rape-and-murder gag?
May 16, 2007 •USA TODAY Ranks “Top” 25 TV Moments List points out many major culprits contributing to the media assault on traditional values and personal responsibility.
May 10, 2007 • Celebrity Media, Heal Thyself
Back in January, ABC’s 20/20 acted shocked when man-on-the-street interviews revealed that nobody knew who cured polio, but many could name Nicole Richie’s best friend. Earth to ABC: did you ever think this could be your fault? This was the first time Jonas Salk had been mentioned on ABC... in the 21st century. In the meantime, Paris Hilton has been mentioned in thousands of stories.
May 4, 2007 • Verizon Connects Customers to Raunchy Rapper It doesn’t get any more hypocritical than a recording company using federal law to stifle free speech critical of its lewd and lascivious rapper while wrapping the First Amendment around him.
May 3, 2007 • Russell Simmons' Solutions Simmons declared, "I think that children, and parents, and everyone else who doesn't really understand the hip-hop community should have a choice....we want people to choose what they want. And if you turn on mainstream radio, you shouldn't have to hear these words."
April 25, 2007 • Rosie Will Quit on a Sour Note Footage of embarrassing rant precedes announcement that O’Donnell is leaving The View at the end of the season.
April 24, 2007 • NY Times Movie Reviewer Ignores Evidence about Effects of Media Violence Scott irresponsibly ignores decades of social science studies that show a direct correlation between the consumption of violent media (movies, television, video games, and music) and increases in aggressive actions and attitudes.
April 23, 2007 • ‘Soft Porn’ in the Sunday Washington Post Under the guise of promoting feminist art, the Arts section of the April 22 Washington Post featured four images of nude or partially nude women and suggested that pornography is “aesthetic.”
April 13, 2007 • Blood, Guts, but No (Box-Office) Glory The message comes across loud and clear. Hollywood wants more - more violence, more gore, more blood. But another message, while a whisper, is just as powerful. Last weekend’s box office indicates that audiences may think this bar of depravity has slipped too low.
April 12, 2007 • Media Cash In on Racism What is newsworthy about the latest Imus insult in the morning isn’t that liberal and conservative commentators alike expressed moral outrage at Imus’ remarks—it’s that they agreed that Imus shouldn’t be fired for saying it.
April 11, 2007 • Bias in the Headlines Gay “marriage” is not recognized in Florida or California, where Disney’s amusement parks are located. The ceremonies that will be performed on the company’s properties and cruise ships will not be weddings.
April 4, 2007 • The Easter "Hit" Parade (a summary) Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
April 4, 2007 • Hollywood, in a Nutshell A horror movie director delights in making people sick with on-screen violence, despite the correlation between watching violence and real-life aggression.
April 3, 2007 • Showtime Renews Lesbian Series The CBS-owned cable network is buying another season of The L Word despite its shrinking audience.
March 28, 2007 • Philosophers and South Park From time to time we hear about zany professors of popular culture using their academic credentials to elevate the most aggressively offensive and potty-mouthed TV shows into the Great Works of Western Civilization.
March 21, 2007 • Consumer Choice vs. Pointless Publicity This ad campaign doesn’t address the most glaring problem with the V-chip - that even if every parent became a technological whiz with the blocking buttons, the broadcast and cable networks do an incredibly slipshod job of accurately describing potentially objectionable content with those letters than nobody knows.
March 15, 2007 • The View from the Bottom The girls on The View are unanimous: Homosexuality is not only morally right but probably ought to be encouraged if we want to keep our military strong.
March 9, 2007 • The Numbers on Moral Decline Americans look into their television sets, and are getting a high-definition dose of Hollywood’s take on values. Fully 68 percent of Americans in the survey said the media are having a detrimental effect on moral values in America.
March 2, 2007 • The '24' Quandary There's a difference between action movies, often rated PG-13 or R, in which the viewers drive to the theater and choose the film, and national television, which can often encountered almost involuntarily by a casual press of the remote.
February 27, 2007 • Oscar’s Artistic, Foul Mouth This year's Best Picture nominees were aesthetically excellent, but morally impaired.
February 23, 2007 • The Celebrity Asylum The best thing you can say about the current celebrity journalism glut is that it’s teaching an object lesson in How Not To Live.
February 22, 2007 • Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and those "Sociopathic" Republicans Liberal celebrities can have their say. But it’s also fair to remind Americans just what the limousine liberals are saying, and how the likes of ABC and CNN and other media seem to do all they can to accommodate them.
February 7, 2007 • Weird Men from Mars and Chevy This year's Super Bowl ads illustrate the sharp divide in American culture.
February 5, 2007 •Friends of God Not Friendly to Evangelicals Why bother trying to "discover" who evangelical Christians are, when all you're really doing is reinforcing tired old stereotypes?
January 26, 2007 • The Black Hole of Sundance The 2007 Sundance festival has reached a new low with a strange, yet highly publicized film called Zoo.
January 23, 2007 • Goth Gotcha Which children's story does the Post emphasize? The American Library Association's award winners? Or Goth culture and fashion?
January 19, 2007 • Saints and Swearing After zooming in on a woman wearing an obscene T-shirt at an NFL game, Fox apologized - but the network is suing for the right to broadcast the F-bomb any time of day.
January 12, 2007 • The Ancient Problem of TV Violence Concerns about violence on television date back to 1954. But who would have predicted television could be as noxious as it is today?
January 11, 2007 • More Violence, More Sex, More Troubled Kids Prime time TV is more violent than ever before, more of the violence is sex-related, and children are paying the price.
January 2, 2007 • MTV Promotes the Death of Innocence Do parents actually watch what their kids watch on MTV? Or, in the effort to be "un-priggish," have they completely abdicated responsibility to turn the garbage off?
December 12, 2006 • War on Christmas? Bah, Humbug. The media are turning a blind eye to one of our most important cultural and Constitutional conflicts.
