Culture

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 worse. The battle for the debut episode: Oprah Winfrey vs. the Catholic Church.

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 Culture Damages Girls (and America Too!), is a must-read for anybody concerned about protecting the nations young girls.

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

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

Jeff Greenfield tells it like it is; Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz says sweep it under the rug.

The View's hostess responds to the Spitzer scandal by arguing for decriminalizing the flesh trade, ignoring the pain of infidelity and the exploitation of vulnerable women.

Hopefully, the Spitzer family will experience forgiveness and reconciliation. That takes time and work. But exploitation of the family by the one who broke the trust is hardly the right catalyst.

Four months after CMI released a study on debt coverage,only CBS addresses the character question in mortgage crisis stories.