http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/22972/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/eye-culture/networks-inferno-hype-dan-brown <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> ‘Da Vinci Code’ author gets 532 mentions, lots of praise on ABC, CBS, NBC. Will new book be as celebrated? </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/katie-yoder">Katie Yoder</a> </div> </div> </div> <ul><li>ABC, CBS and NBC mentioned author Dan Brown or his books and movies 532 times since 2003.</li><li>Nearly 40 percent of those mentions were in stories that had nothing to do with Brown or his work or were not the main topic of the segment.</li><li>Networks dignified Brown’s conspiracy theories, bad theology and anti-Catholicism, equating them with religion.</li></ul><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/eye-culture/networks-inferno-hype-dan-brown" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Eye on Culture MRC Culture Art & Entertainment Faith broadcastnetworks Dan Brown Davinci Code Inferno Tue, 14 May 2013 12:53:42 +0000 matt.philbin 43567 at http://archive2.mrc.org