Courts Can't Cope with COPA

Culture
The Third Circuit strikes down Congress's attempt to protect children from online porn by requiring smut site visitors to provide adult ID.

CW's Gossip Girl Takes No Prisoners in New Ad Campaign

Culture
Network pokes fun at concerned parents, boasts that culture watchers are condemning the ads.

WaPo Whacks McCain's Wife, Grandfather

Culture
Articles emphasize Cindy McCain's drug addiction rather than her accomplishments, describe grandfather as a gambler and bootlegger.

Court Punts Super Bowl Indecency Ruling Back to FCC

Culture
All the FCC needs to do is inform broadcasters that fleeting images of nudity constitute actionable indecency, and it intends to enforce the rules.

A Guide to the Movie Galaxy

Culture
Dr. Thomas Hibbs finds a silver lining in Hollywood's dark cloud of despair.

ABC, CBS Spotlight Suffering Illegal Immigrants

Culture
Both networks provide rare favorable reports about churches—churches that offer sanctuary to the 'undocumented' in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Blue Summer

Culture
Hollywood is peddling sex like crazy this season even though the sexualization of our culture is exacting a fearsome toll, especially on young girls.

ABC's Stossel Sees No Evil in Sexually 'Liberated' Culture

Culture
The 20/20 host suggests that society may even benefit from sexual libertinism, but his articles don't give both sides of the story.

ABC's The View Gets Hot and Heavy

Culture
Barbara Walters and her fellow panel members on waded knee-deep into sex this week, moving from porn to vibrators to S&M Barbie.

DC Flouts Supreme Court on Guns, as Washington Post Advised

Culture
Progressive values trump Constitutional rights in certain journalistic circles.

WaPo Slams U.S. Census Bureau for Upholding Federal Marriage Law

Culture
Same-sex marriages will not count as marriages in the 2010 census, in accordance with the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The Post report quotes three people who oppose the decision but only one supporter.

'Bi-Curious' Summer

Culture
Hollywood calculates how to profit from pushing the envelope.

Media Obituaries Expose Political Bias

Culture
Why did the media treat Tony Snow so much more respectfully than Jesse Helms and Jerry Falwell?

American Teens Heavily Involved in Sex, Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking

Culture
Adolescents commonly engage in self-destructive, character-damaging behavior.