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HuffPo: Sonogram ‘Changes Lives’ for Gay Parents but is ‘Coercion’ for Abortive Mothers

dan.gainor — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:22:30 +0000

Lefty site praises sonograms for women who want to give birth; calls them ‘invasive’ for women who have abortion.

Kristine Marsh

Sonograms have the ability to “change lives,” according to The Huffington Post. Apparently, they also can change agendas.

In a post Sunday by Jon Summers at HuffPo Gay Voices, Summers shared the joy of seeing his adopted son’s face on the sonogram of the 17-year-old girl who had decided to give her child to Summers and his fellow gay partner.

Dance of Death: Sundance Worships Abortionist Involved In Botched Abortion

dan.gainor — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:42:37 +0000

LeRoy Carhart, Jennifer Morbelli’s abortion ‘doctor, stars in Sundance film.

Katie Yoder

Sundance glorified adultery, porn, and sex with minors during the 2013 Sundance Festival, but now another topic received excruciating recognition: death.

‘March for … ?’ Nets Don’t Use ‘Life’ in Abortion Debate

matt.philbin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:27:33 +0000

Broadcast networks refuse to say ‘pro-life’ in 91 percent of Roe v. Wade anniversary coverage.

Katie Yoder

Thinking of learning a new language? Try English – broadcast media style. Specifically, try abortion-reporting speak – a tongue as notable for the words it doesn’t use as those it does.

Comic Book ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Decides to Slay Her Child

dan.gainor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:20:25 +0000

Latest in series of pro-abortion pieces by entertainment industry.

Paul Wilson, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media

The entertainment industry has begun to exhibit an increasingly pro-abortion agenda. A Feb. 8 USA Today article examined the latest example of a member of the entertainment industry promoting abortion. In season 9 of the comic book series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” the main character, Buffy, decides to have an abortion.

CMI Commentary: Hollywood vs. Emilio Estevez

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:53:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Say the name Emilio Estevez and most people think of the 'Brat Pack,' when he was a star in popular Eighties youth movies like 'The Breakfast Club' and 'St. Elmo's Fire,' or maybe the hockey coach in the 'Mighty Ducks' films. Compared to his brother Charlie Sheen, he's become the quiet, stable brother.

CMI Commentary: Viacom's Endless Violations

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:54:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

It's so ironic that in the very midst of the Anthony Weiner Twitter scandal, television's most shameless channel, MTV, is working overtime to make any notion of sexual restraint obsolete. This year's MTV Movie Awards aerobically established a new low.

Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are starring in the upcoming summer comedy "Friends with Benefits," yet another movie exploring the "dream life" of casual and very cold sex. As they introduced the award for Best Male Performance, Timberlake and Kunis grabbed each other's private parts on national TV.

Commentary: Exposing the Hollywood 'Clique'

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:25:00 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Born blocks from the NBC soundstage in 1984 to parents in the entertainment industry, Ben Shapiro is a natural choice to write a book about Hollywood. For his new book "Primetime Propaganda," Shapiro has studied decades of television content and interviewed a bevy of powerful Hollywood producers to document the degree to which they have created a political and cultural revolution of permissive leftism.

Down a Dark Abby

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:00:00 +0000

CMI Staff

The Dear Abby column, founded by Pauline Phillips in 1956 and now written by her daughter Jeanne, has a reputation for prescribing sensible advice for many of life's dilemmas, both big and small. Readers generally assume Abby can be trusted to provide traditional advice on all topics.

However, a Culture and Media Institute analysis finds that Abby's advice on sexual issues frequently veers far away from traditional moral standards. Traditional morality teaches that sex should be limited to married, heterosexual couples, but Abby doesn't see it that way.

The Media Assault on American Values

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:37:00 +0000

CMI Staff

This Culture and Media Institute Special Report, The Media Assault on American Values, is the second in a series of reports presenting the most important findings of CMI's major survey of American cultural and moral attitudes, the National Cultural Values Survey. CMI is a division of the Media Research Center, America's foremost media watchdog.

Prescription For Bias

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:47:00 +0000

Amy Menefee

Ken Shepherd

See Executive Summary

Bad Company II

admin — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:33:00 +0000

Dan Gainor

See Executive Summary