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Culturally Corrosive Comedy: The Daily Show & Colbert Report

…especially political satire in TV programs such as Saturday Night Live, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. As Chevy Chase noted on the day of the 2008 presidential election in an interview with Newsweek, Saturday Night Live targeted Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for ridicule, just as they had once targeted Gerald Ford. Ford was portrayed as a bumbling idiot, even though he… Continue reading →

THE SHIPPING NEWS

Kevin Spacey stars in THE SHIPPING NEWS as Quoyle, a mousy ink-setter in upstate New York. After years of being cheated on by his wife, Petal, Quoyle loses his wife in a car accident, after she sold their daughter, Bunny, to a corrupt adoption agency. Still stricken with grief, however, Quoyle retreats with his long-lost Aunt Agnis (sic) and Bunny to Newfoundland, the mysterious home of their ancestors. Aunt Agnis leads them to the old family ho… Continue reading →

Corrupt “News” Media Favors Obama, 2 to 1!

America’s national “news” media has become thoroughly corrupted politically, according to two new studies on the current presidential campaign. The Center for Media and Public Affairs reports that evening newscasts on NBC, ABC and CBS have favored Sen. Obama over John McCain, 65% compared to 31%! NBC was the worst, with 56% positive for Democrats and only 16% positive for Republicans. The news portion of Fox News Channel’s Special report with Br… Continue reading →

MACHETE Producers Lied about Racist Bloodbath

…eaked script portrayed white characters [4] as vehemently racist and wantonly murderous, or that a Latino mob is roused to take on border vigilantes in racial conflict, director Rodriguez assured Ain’t It Cool News, [5] that he’d ‘had too much tequila,’ and that those types of scenes wouldn’t make it to the final edited version. Producer Elizabeth Avellan went on the attack [3] just before the re… Continue reading →

BEHIND THE BIG NEWS

Jason Blair, the New York Times reporter who was fired for a pattern of fraud, plagiarism and deceit, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the misinformation that the major news outlets have been feeding to the American people for many years. Regrettably, the New York Times seems to have been at the forefront of the trend of newspapers that nurtured reporters who deceived the public. A few will recognize the name of Walter Durante, the New… Continue reading →

We Are Not in Kansas or Kiev Anymore

…05)! When I drive to Hollywood to preview a movie at a screening, I visit studio executives to help them understand this influence they are having on the children and grandchildren of the United States and the world. The good news is that many of them are listening. The type of entertainment being produced is gradually moving away from salacious, ultra-violent R-rated movies to family films with faith—movies such as Amazing Grace, Prince Caspian,… Continue reading →

2012 Actor Cusack Calls for ‘Satanic Death’ of Fox News, GOP Leaders

Actor John Cusack went on an angry tirade against Fox News and conservative Republican leaders earlier this week. Writing on Twitter August 29, Cusack said, with several garbled misspellings, “I am for a Satanic Death Cult Center at Fox News and outside the offices of Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and all the GOP welfare freaks.” Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman, author of COPING WITH TERRORISM, warned Cusack’s t… Continue reading →

News of Interest

Here’s a summary of news items of note: ** Group Fights New Internet Domains for Porn Industry There is .org, .com, .edu, .gov, etc. and some may even remember .xxx. The .xxx domain was thought to have been created to relieve the .com world of porn sites. However, history shows that pornographers only created more domains under the .xxx domains rather than leaving the .com domains, according to Morality in Media (MIM). According to M… Continue reading →

Trust in Movieguide® Grows While Secular News Outlets Die

While newspapers and network news programs are losing subscribers and confidence among the general public in America, MOVIEGUIDE® has been growing its number of readers and visitors. A recent Gallup Poll shows the American people’s confidence in network news and newspapers has dropped from 46% and 31%, respectively, in 1993 to 22% and 25%, respectively. Thus, while network news and newspapers have seen their confidence level among the public dec… Continue reading →

BAD NEWS BEARS

The remake of BAD NEWS BEARS, starring Billy Bob Thornton, is being marketed to young audiences but is not appropriate for them. Thornton plays Buttermaker, a has-been baseball player who has since become an alcoholic pest exterminator. To make extra money, he agrees to coach a baseball team full of youth who have been rejected from other Little League teams. His team, the Bears, lives up to its reputation and doesn’t know the first thing about… Continue reading →

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