“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveStillsSometimesCharacterValuesAsksMoralOpinionStruggleIssuesMediaResponsibleDon't BelieveCensorship Author:Katey Sagal
“Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.” LostMoralMediaMonstersTerrorist Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes, it's inspired by music and television. Irresponsible artists and writers with a hidden agenda, just working against the moral fabric that God intended for us to have.” WayBelieveArtistI BelieveMoralMediaTelevisionAbuseInspiredHandleAgendasCheatingFabricIrresponsibleArtists And WritersThreesome Author:Tony Gaskins
“Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.” PeopleWayChristianReligiousMoralGroupsMediaMajorityCampaignsVersionsOrganizedNaziJerrySlickSlurs Book:Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson
“I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.” WritingBookInterestRoomsMoralCasesNovelMediaSceneAspectInstanceDiscussionRepresentationAvoiding Author:Emma Donoghue
“It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.” GovernmentPurposeLanguageGoalMoralMediaDangerousCapitalismAbsence Author:Elisabeth Murdoch
“The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.” IfsWantNeedsAttentionMoralMediaArmsIslamBillionsMeaningfulPeacefulMessRadicalMake SenseGuidanceDistinctionMinoritiesPushingCaptureRighteousExtremistObservantMoral LifeReligion Of Islam Author:Reza Aslan
“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.” KnowsWayLongTwoSpiritualityDecisionWalksMoralFocusMediaPrayingJudgmentShotsThirdsStressMethodCalmWarmMagazinesEach DayBuyingEthicalCandleLensesAnother WayReductionFuzzyOmenLong WalksMoral JudgmentScented CandlesStress Reduction Author:Myrna Blyth