First of all, I watch The Colbert Report on Comedy Central at least two or three times a week — usually  its day-old 7:30 PM (ET) repeat edition since I am much too old and tired to stay up and catch the first run at 11:30 PM (ET). I think Stephen Colbert is often hysterically…

Let’s hope this one’s a trend — that spreads to the media and society as a whole. Rutgers University in New Jersey (that’s right, home of The Sopranos and Snooky) is launching a two-year project aimed at promoting civility. With so much out there promoting the opposite, it’s a contrarian idea that may just catch…

For most of the past week, this space has focused on What the Pope Knew, a CNN documentary that aired Saturday night on the subject of the Pope Benedict XVI’s role in handling allegations of child sexual abuse by priests that came to his attention while (as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) heading Congregation for the Doctrine…

I’ve spent the last three sessions of this blog running an interview with CNN’s Gary Tuchman about his one-hour documentary entitled What the Pope Knew airing tonight at 8:00 PM ET. As the title suggests it deals with the child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church and, after watching an advance copy,…

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