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.

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

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

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.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

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