{"id":316,"date":"2007-11-30T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html"},"modified":"2007-11-30T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T11:41:01","slug":"we-interrupt-this-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html","title":{"rendered":"We interrupt this immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"

..in Encyclical-Land to bring you this. I was (and still am) going to do a Golden Compass <\/em>post next week (the movie is released in the US on 12\/7), but I couldn’t wait on this.
\nUsing the positive review of the film that has come to us from the USCCB film office, a review penned by Harry Forbes and John Mulderig, \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0New Line’s advertising agency is reaching out to diocesan publications. This email was sent this morning:<\/p>\n

New Line Cinema has expressed interest in possibly advertising The Golden Compass in the Catholic press. As I\u2019m sure many of you are aware, there has been some controversy around this film because of the philosophy of the author and the nature of the book(s) used as the basis for the film. The film opens December 7. We\u2019ve spoken extensively about this film with Harry Forbes, Director of the USCCB\u2019s Office of Film and Broadcasting. Below please find a link to Mr. Forbes\u2019 review (he gave The Golden Compass an A II classification-Adults & Adolescents) which was posted last evening on the CNS website and which will be posted today on the USCCB\u2019s.
\n\u00a0
\nAccording to Mr. Forbes\u2019 review, \u201cWhatever author Pullman’s putative motives in writing the story, writer-director Chris Weitz’s film, taken purely on its own cinematic terms, can be viewed as an exciting adventure story with, at its core, a traditional struggle between good and evil, and a generalized rejection of authoritarianism\u201d.<\/em>
\n\u00a0
\nhttp:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/movies\/07mv242.htm<\/a>
\n\u00a0
\nBecause of the extremely abbreviated time element, we\u2019re only approaching those newspapers located within the top 50 television markets which publish weekly. Please get back to me by 2:00 PM EST (11:00 AM PST) to let me know if you want to be included on the quote. No budgets or ad sizes have yet been discussed. We will be suggesting Full Page and Half Page Full Color to simplify the art custom sizing process. Our goal is to issue insertion orders by end of day today with artwork delivered via e mail (PDF) as per our normal process by end of day Monday.
\n\u00a0
\nPleased call or e mail me immediately if you have any questions or require any additional information.
\n\u00a0
\nThanks very much for your immediate attention.
\n\u00a0
\nRegards,
\n\u00a0
\nBob Bugle
\nNational Account Manager
\nAdvertising Media Plus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well.
\nThe most interesting thing to me is the wording of this letter, frankly. That the studio (or advertising agency – it is not clear) \u00a0has spoken “extensively” to the USCCB reviewer about the film.
\nWhat does that <\/em>mean?
\nAs I said, I have more to say next week, but please know that I did read the books a few years ago and wrote a piece about them for OSV. <\/a>
\nAnd in the name of equal time, here’s an interview (email) that Peter Chattaway (Christianity Today<\/em> contributor, committed Orthodox Christian) \u00a0conducted with Pullman. <\/a>
\nInsight Scoop has several related posts, with references to their new book on the matter <\/a>by Sandra Miesel and Peter Vere.
\nFr. James Martin at the America blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

..in Encyclical-Land to bring you this. I was (and still am) going to do a Golden Compass post next week (the movie is released in the US on 12\/7), but I couldn’t wait on this. Using the positive review of the film that has come to us from the USCCB film office, a review penned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nWe interrupt this immersion - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We interrupt this immersion - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"..in Encyclical-Land to bring you this. I was (and still am) going to do a Golden Compass post next week (the movie is released in the US on 12\/7), but I couldn’t wait on this. Using the positive review of the film that has come to us from the USCCB film office, a review penned…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-30T11:41:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"awelborn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"We interrupt this immersion - Via Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"We interrupt this immersion - Via Media","og_description":"..in Encyclical-Land to bring you this. I was (and still am) going to do a Golden Compass post next week (the movie is released in the US on 12\/7), but I couldn’t wait on this. Using the positive review of the film that has come to us from the USCCB film office, a review penned…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html","og_site_name":"Via Media","article_published_time":"2007-11-30T11:41:01+00:00","author":"awelborn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html","name":"We interrupt this immersion - Via Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-11-30T11:41:01+00:00","dateModified":"2007-11-30T11:41:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/we-interrupt-this-immersion.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"We interrupt this immersion"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/","name":"Via Media","description":"Amy Welborn","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a","name":"awelborn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","caption":"awelborn"},"description":"Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/author\/awelborn"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}