{"id":157,"date":"2011-01-25T05:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T05:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2011\/01\/estimated-200000-turn-out-for-march-for-life-2011-but-wheres-the-media-mtvs-skins-sheds-more-adverti.html"},"modified":"2011-01-25T05:11:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T05:11:15","slug":"estimated-200000-turn-out-for-march-for-life-2011-but-wheres-the-media-mtvs-skins-sheds-more-adverti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/catholicsmediaandculture\/2011\/01\/estimated-200000-turn-out-for-march-for-life-2011-but-wheres-the-media-mtvs-skins-sheds-more-adverti.html","title":{"rendered":"Estimated 200,000 turn out for March for Life 2011 but where’s the media?; MTV’s “Skins” sheds more advertisers; Keith Olbermann for Senate?; Pope Benedict weighs in on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

An estimated 200,000 people turn out for March for Life 2011.<\/b><\/a> But, once again, the media coverage seems a bit scant. Bad news judgment? Media bias? Media corruption?
You be the judge.<\/a>

MTV’s Skins episode airs with few advertisers.<\/a><\/b> Facing allegations that the controversial sexually-provocative teen drama (which includes minors in its cast) amounts to child pornography, advertisers bailed in droves causing the latest episode to run without spots from the likes of  Taco Bell, Subway, Wrigley, GM or H&R Block<\/a>. That pretty much left some movie promos, a PSA against digital bullying and MTV itself.
Meanwhile, Bryan Elsley, the creator of the show, says<\/a> “Skins<\/em> is a very simple and in fact rather old fashioned
\ntelevision series. It’s about the lives and loves of teenagers, how they
\nget through high school, how they deal with their friends, and also how
\nthey circumnavigate some of the complications of sex, relationships,
\neducations, parents, drugs and alcohol.”<\/i>
Yeah, old fashioned, just like Happy Days<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann breaks his silence.<\/a><\/b> The ex-Countdown<\/i> host tweets that reports of the death of his career are greatly exaggerated. There is a Facebook effort<\/a> afoot to draft him to run for the U.S. Senate. Personally, I’d vote for Betty White.
Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a>, meanwhile, has begun his reign in the old Olbermann slot on MSNBC. In his opening show he praised his predecessor saying “I marvel as any writer must at what Keith was doing. Five op-eds a
\nweek. Each of them much, much longer than the standard 800 words.”<\/i> It’s true his rants did seem endless. Anyway, I’m not entirely sure O’Donnell isn’t just Olbermann without the glasses. And why is his show called The Last Word<\/i> if it’s kicking off the network’s prime-time lineup?  <\/p>\n

Pope Benedict weighs in on social networking.<\/b><\/a> The Pontiff sees the benefits of Facebook and the like but warns that “It is important always to remember that virtual contact
\ncannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with
\npeople at every level of our lives.”<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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