Monday, 07 Jan 2013 02:50 PM
Perhaps the biggest story related to Kathy Griffin’s salacious
stunt on CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper was the
almost deadening silence it engendered from any quarter.
Aside from Newsbusters and the Parents Television Council (thank
God for Brent Bozell), and a story in the Baltimore Sun and the New York
Daily News, there wasn’t much in the way of criticism (predictably,
Perez Hilton took offense at the Parents Television Council for having
the audacity to call out Griffin).
Does it matter what Griffin did? To put it more generally, does
what we see and hear have any effect on our behavior, particularly the
behavior of young people?
Hollywood obviously thinks that what we see and hear matters,
otherwise it wouldn’t intentionally ban actors from smoking on
television. The movies are no different. There are, of course, a few
exceptions. But those exceptions do not go unanswered.
Dr. William Donohue is the president of and CEO of the Catholic
League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation’s largest Catholic
civil rights organization. The publisher of the Catholic League journal,
Catalyst, Bill is a former Bradley Resident Scholar at the Heritage
Foundation and served for two decades on the board of directors of the
National Association of Scholars. The author of five books, two on the
ACLU, and the winner of several teaching awards and many awards from the
Catholic community, Donohue has appeared on thousands of television and
radio shows speaking on civil liberties and social issues.
No comments:
Post a Comment