Bloglines user SeanMcBride (smcbride2@yahoo.com) has sent this item to you, with the following personal message: [More proof that the mainstream media are not remotely "liberal." They are pursuing an entirely different agenda. They are amping up the Christian far right -- Christian fundamentalists and Christian Zionists -- in order to advance their militaristic agenda in the Middle East.]
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| By TPR FREDERICK CLARKSON, POLITICAL CORTEX - Are Christians being silenced? The question sounds like the perennial complaint from members of the Christian Right. But in fact, as specious as the Christian Right's complaints along these lines usually are, this one is different. . .
When the Sunday morning public affairs talk shows think about getting a Christian view on public affairs who do they call? According to Rev. Robert Chase, Director of Communications for the 1.3 million member United Church of Christ, over the past 8 years the Sunday network public affairs shows have interviewed political leaders of the religious right 36 times, and leaders of mainline Christian denominations such as the United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), American Baptist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Reformed Church in America, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, among others -- exactly zero times.
"Increasingly," Chase added at a national news conference, "millions of U.S. Christians have grown weary of having their more-inclusive, more-progressive values silenced." . . . The UCC's complaint that the networks are silencing mainstream religious voices does not stop there. They are also having trouble with the advertising departments of the networks. The church is currently engaged in a multiyear outreach campaign that includes television advertising. But unless you have cable you won't get to see their new ad -- because the networks won't run them. . . ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, reports Religion News Service, deemed them "too controversial.". . .
ABC spokeswoman Susan Sewall told Kevin Eckstrom of Religion News Service: "The network doesn't take advertising from religious groups. It's a long-standing policy. . .
But on Sunday, on the same network's public affairs show, This Week with George Stephanopolis, if you want a religious point of view on news and public affairs you are far more likely to hear from James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who has appeared three times (and who by the way, is a psychologist), than Rev. John Thomas, President of the United Church of Christ who has never appeared. | | | | |
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