Michael On
Michael On
europe tests tough
Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.
college years class
Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.
christian religious offensive
Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?
christian religious war
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.
two years four
My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.
hero hollywood symbols
Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
christian religious powerful
For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.
christian religious peculiar
Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.
christian religious self
The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.
christian religious agency
Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the industry must transform itself into an agency for advancing the Word of God.
kindness media attention
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.
long waiting fundamentals
If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.
worry littles too-much
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it
gay pro-gay objections
My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.