The CBS news magazine treats the conservative black Supreme Court Justice with unprecedented respect, in contrast to Thomas's Senate confirmation hearings

When adults abdicate responsibility as protectors of children and vanguards of public morality and decency, children become the nation's most endangered species. When adults equate legal with moral, appropriate and acceptable, perversion can find patronage.

ABC World News profiles an Army sergeant who took responsibility to help a suffering Iraqi girl.

No matter how pornographic his lyrics, no matter how many kids he helps to corrupt, no matter how callously he maligns fellow citizens as niggas and hoes and no matter how coarsely he portrays black urban culture as an open sewer, he has a ready explanation: It's somebody else's fault, not his.

TIME promotes the views of an Italian doctor who did what the magazine condemned Senator Bill Frist for doing: diagnosing a patient from video footage.

Will public nudity and sexual acts performed in broad daylight in San Francisco streets, while police stand by doing nothing, generate headlines on national newscasts?

Rutgers University is known as the birthplace of college football, but in the last few weeks it's seemed more like the deathplace of sportsmanship.

Viewers attracted by adorable children or train wreck hype?

Camp O.J. has taken over Las Vegas.

Guilt by association: "Tuscaloosa, where George Wallace once stood defiantly in the schoolhouse door to keep blacks out of the University of Alabama...."

A key measure we have for punditry in our political culture is fame, not a display of any brains.

Journalists leaped to the defense of the Rutgers women's basketball players, but Navy men's football players seem to be fair game.

Comedienne crosses the line by mocking Christ while accepting an Emmy award.