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ABC Features Teen 'Confessionals'

Story explains why parents should just say no to Spring Break.

Controlling Kids with a 'Raised Eyebrow?'

Washington Post columnist Marguerite Kelly advises a mother to 'flee' from her husband because he spanks their son.

Oprah Redefines Normal with Pregnant 'Man'

Media ignore the simple reality: Thomas Beatie is a woman.

While Covering Lies by Hillary and Obama, Couric Smears McCain

CBS 'balances' a story about whoppers told by the Democratic candidates by falsely depicting a McCain policy prediction as a lie.

The Revolt Against Sincerity

America is mired in the Snark Ages.

Networks Ignore Revealing Obama 'Baby' Gaffe

Candidate doesn't want daughters punished with a baby.

Soldiers 'Experiencing God' a Problem for Newsweek

The Beliefwatch column suggests we can't have thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reading a Christian devotional book, lest people think the government favors a certain religion.

Expelled Encounters Liberal Media Hostility

Documentary exposes the academy's emotional and ideological commitment to evolution, and its anti-scientific refusal to consider evidence for intelligent design.

ABC's View Girls Skip Down the Yellow Brick Road with Obama

Most panelists choose to coddle the candidate, not examine his character and values.

CBS Early Show Gives Planned Parenthood Star Treatment

Kate Walsh plays a doctor on TV. Who cares what she thinks about abstinence education and STDs?

ABC Follows 'Born Gay' Script to a T

Good Morning America promotes the latest gay gene study, and marginalizes the opposing scientific voice by labeling him as religious.

Dumbest Book of the Year

Even liberals cannot trust the new book by Eric Alterman, Why We're Liberals.

NBC Touts New Do-It-Yourself Paternity Test

Today Show fails to address the moral implications.

Washington Post Swoons over Hollywood Leftists Come to D.C.

News media help entertainment media 'progressives' spread message about separating church and state.

All They Need Is Love?

ABC's Good Morning America fails to ask hard questions when a transgendered 'man' announces 'his' pregnancy.

Oh, Those Naughty Broadcasters

NBC pokes its finger in the FCC's eye, and Fox says 'No' to paying fine.

Networks Spurn Clinton-Obama Spat over Character and Values

Reporters are more concerned about Democratic prospects in November than in telling the American people who Clinton and Obama really are.

Hollywood's Holy Week Christophobic Fantasy: Zealot Stones Mother to Death

On NBC's Law & Order, a college student influenced by a radical Christian youth minister murders his mother to save her soul after she commits adultery with a Muslim.

FaithShatters: ABC Takes an Ill-Informed Whack at Creationists

During Holy Week, the Nightline series FaithMatters ridicules Biblical literalists.

Beyond Bunnies and Jelly Bellies: USA Today Explores True Meaning of Easter

Article challenges popular definition of sin and allows Christians to cite the correct definition.

Does Profanity Reign Supreme?

What Hollywood really wants – and in a cowardly way, is refusing to declare publicly – is the right to bombard your living room, and your children, with obscenities.

ABC's Raddatz Recoils from True Political Leadership

Reporter is appalled that Cheney refuses to base Iraq strategy on public opinion polls, as network coverage of the war's fifth anniversary emphasizes costs, ignores benefits.

Scoring Points by Demonizing Falwell

Unlike Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell was no hater.

Obama Can Run, but He Can't Hide Without Media Help – and They're Helping

The networks gloss over the candidate's failure, in a crucial speech, to explain why he remained in a church that preaches hatred of America.

Keeping 'Pigs' Out of Your Parlor

The Supreme Court will rule on fleeting expletives and broadcast indecency.

Money Talks, but Will Hollywood Listen?

A new study shows less profanity in film leads to higher profits for movie studios.

Lewis Black, Anti-Catholic Hack

Black is the star of a brand new Comedy Central show named The Root of All Evil. Comedians act like prosecutors, with Black as judge, trying to determine which of two allegedly evil forces is ...

A Book for Culture Warriors

CMIs Colleen Raezler reviews the blockbuster book by Carol Platt Liebau documenting the blizzard of provocative sexual messages the media are sending to our children. Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed ...

Couric Shocked, Shocked! That 50% of Teen Girls Are Sexually Active, and 25% Have STDs

An expert interviewed by CBS misses the link between 'comprehensive' sex ed and runaway rates of HPV.

Thanks, Kristen

The girl behind the Spitzer scandal deserves some media attention too.