Movie Reviewer Not Satisfied by Presence of 'Choice

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Entertainment Weekly film critic bemoans the absence of pro-abortion propagandizing in Juno, even though the pregnant protagonist seriously considers abortion.

Cantwell Aide's Sex Scandal Gets Little Press Coverage

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Media bury news of a Democratic congressional staffer snared in a police pedophile sting.

AIDS: The Questions They Won't Ask

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Here are some of the questions that the media probably won't ask the professional HIV/AIDS lobby, which grows ever fatter while the human tragedy rises

Christmas Greetings from the Left Pole

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With Sweeney Todd and Charlie Wilson just in time for Christmas, the Hollywoodites at the left pole would like us to forget that they're anti-Christian, anti-war and anti-conservative.

Going Off a Cliff at the Chronicle

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A San Francisco columnist explains why he loves The Golden Compass -- because he hates religion and religious people. Why does an ostensibly mainstream newspaper like the Chronicle publish such venomous hate speech?

Junk Food Ban "Faces Hurdles" - But Freedom Isn't One of Them

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The Times' Kim Severson brings the nanny-state approach to the school snack bar, celebrating the fight against "the mountain of high-calorie snacks and sodas available to schoolchildren."

The Golden Compass and the Atheist Blitzkrieg

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Every dollar spent on the movie and its merchandise increases the likelihood that the entire God-hating trilogy will make it to your local theater – so that untold numbers of children will be propagandized by a story that attacks traditional religious beliefs.

NBC Claims, Hopefully, That Young Evangelicals Are Turning Away from P

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Tom Brokaw uses carefully crafted images, leading questions and selective quotes to reinforce the appearance of a generational divide among evangelicals.

The Golden Compass Points Kids the Wrong Way

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Unfortunately, this is part of being a responsible parent today. You have to be a kind of cultural food-taster for your children. Borrow Mr. Pullman's three books from your local library -- we don't advise you to buy them -- and see for yourself what's in them.

What Children Watch

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The network chieftains approving all this adult TV would assert that it's unreasonable for parents to think their children aren't exposed to this kind of reality in their daily lives at school or in the neighborhood. But if parents worry about the problem of monkey see, monkey do, nobody's a bigger monkey to children than Hollywood.

ABC Spanks Spanking

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World News with Charles Gibson runs a propaganda piece supporting a proposed ban on the tried and true method of parental discipline.

Abstinence Gets Fair Treatment from Today Show

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NBC's Meredith Vieira is skeptical, but at least she isn't hostile.

ABC's Sawyer: Huckabee's 'Heavy Handed' Ad Plays 'Religion Card

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Did Huckabee 'cross the line' with an ad calling himself a 'Christian Leader?'

TIME Covers a Sunday School for Atheists

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Why do the media need to provide an atheist rebuttal to every God-centered holiday?