The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.