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I received this in my email this morning and thought it would be a good use of this space to help. If you haven’t seen Mr. Mayer maybe you could say a prayer for him. Dear Friend, One of our neighbors is missing. Please take a moment and see if you can help. Steven Mayer,…

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…

Stephen J. Cannell, the prolific TV writer/producer turned successful mystery novelist, died last week at age 69 from complications of melanoma. (Read the New York Times obituary here.) By all accounts, he was a happy man both personally and professionally — the fruits of a life well lived. He married his high school sweetheart —…

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…

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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