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Media Wrap: “Narnia” rules worldwide box office; Larry King goes out on top; Family movies coming to Fox; “Brooklyn Story” catches Hollywood’s eye
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John W. Kennedy
Some media items of note. Sailing along. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Walden Media’s third release based on C.S. Lewis‘ Christian-themed fantasy saga The Chronicles of Narnia, fell to third place in the domestic box office results this weekend, after opening in the top spot last week. The film brought in $12,400,000 bringing its…
Report says broadcast TV networks routinely sexualize young girls
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John W. Kennedy
The Parents Television Council is out with a report detailing what it says is a pattern of prime-time network TV shows fairly routinely airing content that sexualizes young girls, specifically between the ages of 12 and 17. According to PTC President Tim Winter, the report, entitled Tinseltown’s New Target: A Study of Teen Female Sexualization…
Is The Smithsonian’s decision to pull a controversial “art” video censorship?
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John W. Kennedy
There’s lots of outrage on the left over the Smithsonian’s decision to bow to political pressure and pull a video of Jesus Christ covered in ants from a Christmas-timed exhibit entitled “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture”. Predictably, the cries of government censorship followed. One commenter to an item that appeared on this blog…
Minor annoyances involving CNN, the Golden Globes, Aaron Sorkin and Sarah Palin
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John W. Kennedy
I’m not exactly losing sleep over this stuff but here are a few news items currently residing in my “Annoying” file. Kathy Griffin returns to co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live. Annoying because the woman often seems to go out of her way to gratuitously offend Christians. I doubt she’d be back if she engaged…
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