Here are today dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Jon Stewart take on Viacom’s spitting match with DirecTV (via The Wrap): “Viacom and DirecTV, what are you doing here? You got ad campaigns blaming each other for taking the shows away, telling people to “rise up and demand it” like some kind…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. LL Cool J’s opens the Grammy Awards with a prayer for Whitney Houston. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id5M1sHr8P4 2.  The Vow tops record-breaking weekend box office. From The Wrap: For the first time since Christmas weekend 2008 — and for the first non-holiday weekend ever —…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Tonight Show joke results in Sikh lawsuit. From The Wrap: …(Host Jay) Leno has taken heat from a religious group after cracking that presidential contender (Mitt) Romney keeps the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, as his summer home. And how he’s being…

Here are today’s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. “Way” up. Faith-themed films continue to demonstrate their box office mojo as Sherwood Pictures’ Courageous spends a third week in the Top Ten (8) and The Way boosts its take by a whopping 127% in its second week (moving up 32 to…

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