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CW: ‘Of Course We’ll Screen 90210 for Advertisers’
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Esther Kustanowitz
Despite initial reports, the CW will offer a glimpse of the new ‘90210’ to potential advertisers: While the CW will not make promotional discs containing individual episodes (also known as “screeners”) of its teen drama available to critics or media buyers, it does intend to make the show available to industry monitoring services, such as…
Manufactured Muslim Outrage Over ‘The Jewel of Medina’
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dali
It wasn’t big news, but it was making headlines in the publishing world when a new book called “The Jewel of Medina” about Aisha, the last wife of The Prophet Muhammad, hit the stands and stoked some controversy–not because of Muslim outrage, but because of a perceived Muslim outrage. Written by Sherry Jones (a non-Muslim),…
No-Go on ‘Covered Girls’: Priest Calls off Nun Beauty Contest
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Ellen Leventry
Nuns, Father Antonio Rungi, Beauty Contest, Catholic Church
Is Buffy Turning Girls into Witches?
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Donna Freitas
We heard about it with Harry Potter in spades: that J.K. Rowling’s beloved series about witches and wizards would somehow corrupt the minds and religious practices of youth all over the world. We heard about it with Philip Pullman, too, that somehow his magnificent trilogy “His Dark Materials” was going to turn kids into atheists.…
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