Anchors Aweigh
Bias in broadcast news anchors is inevitable when the profitability of entertainment is placed ahead of the integrity of information.
Bias in broadcast news anchors is inevitable when the profitability of entertainment is placed ahead of the integrity of information.
I have mixed feelings about radio personality Dr. Laura Schleshinger. I like listening to her program, but there's something that really bugs me (and a number of my friends) about her style of answering questions and her answers to some questions. Would you please comment?
The cry of censorship is a tiresome reaction to decisions like the one made by Wal-Mart. It's a form of pressure intended to coerce someone to remain part of the problem.
There are so many substitutes used in our society - substitutes for eggs, substitutes for wood, substitutes for diamonds - that perhaps we should not be too surprised to find substitutes for morality as well.
The recent series on Priests and AIDS in the Kansas City Star used highly misleading statistics to promote an anti-Catholic agenda.
Time magazine's millennium issue failed to mention any of the immensely important contributions the Catholic Church has made to Western culture over the past 1000 years.
How does it happen, that just at a time when prejudice is finally being rooted out with respect to every other identifiable group, mocking comments about the Catholic Church and her representatives are still seen as perfectly acceptable, even de rigueur in modern day Canada.
Anti-Catholicism is not a relic of a distant past, it is as alive as it ever was, only now it is less recognizable.
It often appears as if the news media is interested in religion only when they have an opportunity to attack religious institutions.
Anti-Catholic bigotry was described by Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. as The deepest bias in the history of the American people.