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Minor annoyances involving CNN, the Golden Globes, Aaron Sorkin and Sarah Palin
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John W. Kennedy
I’m not exactly losing sleep over this stuff but here are a few news items currently residing in my “Annoying” file. Kathy Griffin returns to co-host CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live. Annoying because the woman often seems to go out of her way to gratuitously offend Christians. I doubt she’d be back if she engaged…
Tears of Joy: When politicians cry and media double standards
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John W. Kennedy
Blatant double standards by media personalities continually amaze me. Joy Behar got on incoming House Speaker John Boehner’s case for tearing up (again) during an interview with Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes. Stahl had asked Boehner about his, by now well-known, proclivity to turn on the waterworks in public. Behar’s comments followed a clip of…
Mark Zuckerberg’s new social network: billionaire philanthropists
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John W. Kennedy
Billionaires give back. Read Story. Add Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz to the list of billionaires who have signed the Giving Pledge, a document put forth by Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet to encourage fellow billionaires to commit publicly to giving away most of their wealth the charitable causes. The…
Headlines starring Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson, C.S. Lewis, Chase Bank and the Catholic Channel
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John W. Kennedy
Some new headlines involving Faith & Media: Leave it to Beaver. View trailer to Mel Gibson’s potential comeback vehicle. Directed and co-starring his friend Jodie Foster the plot of The Beaver is described as “an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons,…
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