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‘The Secret’ in Action
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dross
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Beliefnet recently posted an interesting gallery on how its readers have credited the “law of attraction”–the idea that we create our reality with our thoughts, popularized by the controversial best-selling book and DVD, “The Secret”–as having worked miracles in their lives (ie: quitting smoking, getting money for college,…
Summer Sequels: The Good, the Bad, and the Good
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Douglas Howe
The summer movie season officially kicks off (are you ready for this?) a week from Friday! May 4th brings us Spider-Man 3—the summer’s first movie release, the first anticipated blockbuster, and the first sequel. Movie sites such as Moviephone and Premiere and papers led by USA Today seem to agree that this is the Summer…
Another “Fair and Balanced” Source?
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Douglas Howe
I read in USA Today that ratings for several top-rated shows are down, and it listed several reasons why, including Daylight Savings Time, DVRs, and long hiatuses. I think there’s one huge reason they missed: too many people are switching to news shows which spend lots of time retelling old stories and generating dialogue that…
Is “Idol” Partly to Blame for the VTech Shootings?
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Ellen Leventry
Did Simon Cowell contribute to the massacre at Virginia Tech?,” asked yesterday’s Scoop column on MSNBC.com. It seems that Barbara Coloroso, author of “The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander,” thinks so. “I think we are experiencing something amiss culturally where the TV shows, if you turn them on, [show] people are laughing at one…
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