On October 11th MSNBC will launch a new ad campaign with the slogan Lean Forward. You can view two of the planned spots here. They may as well just replace the word “Forward” with “Progressive” because that’s the not-so-subtle message. The first spot, particularly, is built around a secular progressive paraphrasing of the Declaration of…

It seems everyone’s weighing on CNN’s firing of Rick Sanchez following his anti-Semitic rant on Pete Dominick‘s Sirius XM radio show last week in which he called out Daily Show host Jon Stewart as a bigot for having the audacity to mock his Ted Baxter-like on-air antics and went on to wail about supposed Jewish…

Education is finally getting some deserved attention from the media with both high-profile film and television projects hitting the big and small screens virtually simultaneously. At the movies, Waiting for Superman previewed last weekend with the highest per-screen box office of any movie in the country. Opening in just four theaters (two in New York,…

Hollywood has finally figured out that there is an audience for movies that portray Christians as heroes (or at least decent people) rather than intolerant boobs or Bible-quoting psychopaths. And, beyond that, it may just be that people prefer stories that portray hope over cynicism. The latest in the trend is Disney’s Secretariat which chronicles…

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