Culture

Report Says Music Industry Sells Violence to Kids

by CE Editors April 24, 2001

by Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – America's music companies were labeled the bad boys of the entertainment world on Tuesday in a government report that said they were still marketing songs with violent and lewd lyrics to children.
The Federal…

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Uniformity in the Morning CBS and Global Warming

by CE Editors April 23, 2001

(This report courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
During a portion of The Early Show last week seen by very few viewers, the CBS team of co-hosts Bryant Gumbel and Jane Clayson, along with news reader Julie Chen and weathercaster…

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Networks Find Daycare Leads to More Aggressive Kids Then Calls for More Daycare

by CE Editors April 22, 2001

ABC, CBS and NBC found a new study on how day care leads to a higher rate of aggressiveness and behavior problems amongst pre-schoolers when they make it to kindergarten credible enough to justify a full story on their evening…

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Activist Publisher Labels Reparations Plan “Racist”

by CE Editors April 20, 2001

by Chad Groening
(AgapePress) – One activist writer and publisher is blasting those who are pushing a plan for whites to pay reparations to blacks for slavery.
David Horowitz is editor-in-chief of FrontPageMag.com. In his Internet publication, the former left-wing…

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New York Times Managing Editor Admits to Bias

by CE Editors April 19, 2001

New York Times Managing Editor Bill Keller let slip to the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz that New York Times stories normally deliver “a little editorial elbow in the ribs,” so the lack of a pointed theme was “kind of liberating”…

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D’Souza Says Equal Rights Mission Largely Accomplished in U.S.

by CE Editors April 18, 2001

by Annette Keilson
RALEIGH, NC (AgapePress) – During Human Rights Week at North Carolina State University, the Young America’s Foundation and the Conservative Leadership Institute hosted Catholic writer Dinesh D’Souza last month. Once a senior policy analyst for President Reagan,…

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VMI Battles for Right to Pray at Mealtime

by CE Editors April 17, 2001

by Allie Martin and Jody Brown
(AgapePress) – A 50-year-old tradition of saying grace before supper is under attack at the Virginia Military Institute — but the school plans to fight back.
Two cadets at the four-year, state-sponsored military college…

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FCC Guidelines on Indecency May Be Tough to Enforce

by CE Editors April 16, 2001

by Allie Martin
(AgapePress) – The head of a media watchdog group has mixed feelings about a recent policy statement by the FCC on broadcast indecency.
The Federal Communication Commission's statement — titled “Enforcement Policies Regarding Broadcast Indecency” — listed…

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“All Agree” Hillary’s Doing a Heckuva Job!

by CE Editors April 15, 2001

“Her critics never give up and she never gives in,” gushed ABC’s Linda Douglass in a tribute to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on her 100th day in office. “All agree,” declared Douglass in her piece aired on Thursday’s Good Morning…

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Is Faith-Based Plan Popular? Depends on Which Headlines You Believe

by CE Editors April 13, 2001

Did a poll find that President Bush’s faith-based initiative plan faces “hurdles” as support for it “is hedged”? Or, does the plan have the “public’s blessing,” as 75 percent of Americans “favor” the concept? It depends on which headline you…

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