Teachinghearts	Religion and Morals in the Media Coming Soon: An American Theocracy "Explore the Word. Change the World"	Statistics: Time: 200 minutes Print: 54 pages

Tar Baby? Stuck in Iraq I stopped working in early 2002 to do this website. A coworker said that I was nuts when I told him that I believe the time has come for the religious right to take over the government and that I had to hurry to finish the prophecies. He said that they had no credibility or power or influence. They were a fringe element who had no influence. He read an article in a respectable journal. Who's nuts now? In the late summer of 2003, when the war in Iraq seemed to be going well, I had my first group of adult bible study students. I told them that based on the prophecy of Daniel 11, that I believed we would lose the war. I also expressed my fears that their young teens could be old enough to be drafted by that time. At that time people were saying that we will be in and out of Iraq in a few months leaving the country in a state of freedom and paradise because that is "what the United States always does". In horror, I said "no don't you see the prophecy fulfilling? Even if everything went well we will be there for years." My frame of reference was the fact that World War 2 has ended since 1945 and we are still in Germany. I even told another group about six months later that based on the prophecies of Revelation 16 and God's methods of giving warnings in a specific pattern that I believed that Iraq will have a civil war which will break it up into three parts. In the summer of 2004, I explained why the Republican party will win despite the sins of Abu Ghraib. I explained that they must reap the whirlwind to come. You should read this logical, clear, consistent version of prophecy from our lessons. You might not like it, but one day it will make sense to you when you admit that America is becoming a theocracy.

In the United States, television has progressed from a period of morality without a specific God, to indifference and hostility. Now, we have entered an era where the characters are openly religious. However, with the exception of eastern philosophies, only one Christian faith is represented on fantasy television. Catholicism. Protestants have only narrowly focused on overthrowing the government. The Catholic church recognizes the value of influencing both the government and the media at the administrative level.

I noticed the trend about six years ago with the popular series "Law and Order". This made me look at other shows to see if there was a larger pattern. I was left with the impression that there might be some sort of collusion or the creators and writers have simply stumbled across a genre. Pop culture reality. To mix beliefs and sin with faith while using the old sex and violence formula.

Since the Media is looming large as a potential driver behind the success of many prophetic events, I also examined other issues that would not be as successful without the involvement of the media. The promotion of evolution and the ridiculing of creation, immorality and now their role as the talking heads of the last world powers and their censorship of information that is vital for an informed choice by a free society.

To analyze the contradictory evidence and the puzzling nature of this information, I had to turn to the war strategies of Sun Tzu so that I could put some of this in perspective.

I wrote this in 2003 at the urging of the Holy Spirit, Who posed two questions to me. What is wrong with the Media and How are they controlling the public? There were no articles that I could turn to. As I researched this article, the Gulf war was rhetoric was heating up. Then one Sunday afternoon, I noticed that many channels were simultaneously running different movies with Arab terrorists. I was angry at the obvious propaganda attempt. Then I wondered how all these network executives at these seemingly unrelated stations had collaborated to produce this schedule and this blitzkreig of images designed to erase any sympathy the population may have for the people of Iraq. So I researched media ownership and television production companies and religion.
This is the result.

News and Media Organizations: Owners
Hundreds of television stations, thousands of radio stations and several major publications are controlled by five major corporations in the United States and one in Canada. Many of these corporations control media ownership around the world and have bought political influence so that they can increase their share of the market. Britain, the United States and Canada are changing rules that increasingly support the trend towards a media oligarchy. Political parties are recognizing the benefits of controlling a chain of media outlets.

Ownership Summary
Total	Industry	Companies
6	Media Companies	Viacom, Disney, NBC-Universal, Time Warner, News Corporation, Liberty
5	Broadcast Television	CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, The CW
4	Music	Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony-BMG, EMI

In the 1980's there were over 600 companies, now there are six.

2002-2003 Statistics
Organization		Products	Leader	Related Companies
1	Viacom/ Paramount	Multimedia Broadcast TV	Sumner Redstone (CEO). Lawrence Tisch of Loew's, Inc.	CBS, UPN, MTV, VH1, BET, TV Land, Comedy Central, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Showtime, TNN, CMT, Big Ticket Television, Spelling Television Inc., Blockbuster, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, King World Productions, EYEMARK, Infinity Broadcasting. 172 radio stations.
2	Disney, Capital Cities, Inc.	Multimedia Broadcast TV	Michael Eisner (CEO)	ABC, ESPN, Pixar, A&E, History Channel, E!, Disney Channel, SoapNet, Toon Disney, TiVo, Lifetime Television, Touchstone Television, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista, Caravan Pictures, Miramax, Discover Magazine, U.S. Weekly. 30 radio stations.
3	NBC, GE NBC-Universal Vivendi Universal Entertainment	Multimedia Broadcast TV	Jeffrey Immelt (CEO)	NBC, A&E, CNBC, Bravo, AMC, Pax, CNBC, MSNBC, History Channel, Telemundo, TiVo, National Geographic channel, 72 television stations
		Multimedia	Fourtou (CEO)	USA, Universal studios, Sci-Fi, MCA Records, Motown, Polygram. Owns part of Time-Warner. 80% owned by GE in October 2003.
4	News Corporation	Multimedia Broadcast TV	Rupert Murdoch	FOX TV, FX, Metromedia, SkyGlobal, 20th Century FOX, TV Guide, New York Post, DirecTV, Hughes Electronics (34%), HarperCollins, The Weekly Standard, National Geographic channel. myspace.com. Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal. International company controlling 175 newspapers globally (130 English language papers) and 40% of newspaper circulation in Britain. Attempting to take China. Satellite services in Asia, Europe North and South America
5	Liberty Media	Cable	John Malone, Robert Bennett (CEO)	Discovery, Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, E!, Bravo, QVC, Court TV, News Corp (18%). Starz Encore Group. Canales, Corus Entertainment. Distributes pornography. Controls 66% of German television.
6	Time Warner	Multimedia Cable	Ted Turner	CNN, AOL, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, HBO, Cinemax, Warner Bros, WB Television Network, TBS, Cartoon Network, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Compuserve, Netscape, Castle Rock Entertainment, IPC Media, Time Life Books, Time, Fortune, Life, Sports Illustrated, Money, People, Bride, Who
7	WB The CW (CBS-Warner) UPN	Broadcast TV	Dawn Ostroff, John Maatta	Time Warner (50%)
		Broadcast TV		CBS (50%)
Tribune		Multimedia	Dennis J. Fitzsimons (CEO)	Owns 26 television stations in major cities, part of the WB network and several news papers. Newsday
Media General		Multimedia	J. Stewart Bryan III	Owns 26 television stations in major cities and several news papers
Cox Enterprises		Multimedia	James O. Robbins (CEO)	Cox Cable, GEMS, MP3, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Palm Beach Post, Rysher entertainment. 71 radio stations.
Bertelsmann AG		Music, Publishing	Mohn family	Operates in 60 countries. Random house, RTL group, BMG Entertainment, Gruner + Jahr
Gannett		Publishing	Douglas McCorkindale (CEO)	USA Today (circulation 2.2 million), Gannett News Sevice, Multimedia Inc, Newscom, 22 television stations, 100 internet publishing sites, SMG Publishing, and publications in many states. Largest circulation group. 94 daily and 500 non-daily newspapers in the USA, with a circulation of over 8 million. Owns 300 newspapers in the United Kingdom including Newsquest, one of the largest.
Knight Ridder		Publishing	Tony Ridder (CEO)	Tribune Information Service, Second largest news paper circulation
Hearst Corporation		Publishing	George R. Hearst Jr (Chairman)	Newspapers, magazines (Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Esquire), television, radio, A&E, History channel, ESPN, iVillage. 12 daily newspapers, 14 weekly newspapers, 17 US consumer magazines
Washington Post		Publishing	Graham	Washington Post, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune
New York Times		Publishing	Sulzberger	New York Times, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune
Belo Corp		Publishing, Television	Robert W. Decherd	Dallas Morning News (525,000 circulation), Providence Journal, Press-Enterprise and 19 television stations and 10 cable news channels
Dow Jones		Publishing, Wire Services	News Corporation. Peter Kann (CEO). Bancroft family	Wall Street Journal (Number 2 in circulation with 1.8 million), MSNBC and CNBC. Previously owned by the Bancroft family, now owned by News Corporation by July 2007
Associated Press		Wire Services	Tom Curley (CEO). Richard Osborne (Chairman)	242 bureaus, 1700 U.S. newspapers, 5000 radio and television outlets, 121 countries
Reuters		Wire Services	Tom Glocer (CEO)	Founded in London in 1851. 197 bureaus serving 130 countries, 52900 client locations, 26+ languages. Instinet, Multex.com Bridge Information Systems.
United Press International		Wire Services	Chung Hwan Kwak (President)	International source of news. Owned by Sun Myung Moon's News World Communications
Tribune Information Service		Wire Services	Knight Ridder	Second largest news paper circulation
Bloomberg Terminals		Wire Services	Michael Bloomberg	Focus is financial news. 87 bureaus, 7 languages
Westwood One		Radio	Norman Pattiz	Owns over 7,700 stations in the USA.
Clear Channel Communications Inc.		Radio	L. Lowry Mays	Owns over 1225 radio stations, 39 TV stations and over 775,000 advertising displays. Owns 240 radio stations internationally.
Cumulus Media		Radio	Lewis Dickey	Owns over 270 stations in the USA.
Citadel Broadcasting Corporation		Radio	Forstmann Little & Co. Farid Suleman (CEO)	Owns over 200 radio stations
Infinity Broadcasting		Radio	John Sykes (CEO)	Viacom and CBS. Owns over 185 stations. Largest outdoor advertiser.
Entercom Communications Corp		Radio	Joseph Field and family (90%)	Owns over 100 stations in 19 markets.
Jones Radio Networks		Radio Programming	Jones Media Networks Ltd	America's leading independent radio programming company. Serves 5,000 radio stations.
Air America Radio		Talk Radio	Mark Walsh (CEO) Evan M. Cohen	Started March 31, 2004 in Chicago, LA, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and XM satellite radio channel 167
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.		Satellite Radio	Gary M. Parsons	2.5 million subscribers. 120 channels of music, news, sports, and talk programming. Project over 5 million in a year
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.			Joseph P. Clayton	700,000 subscribers. 65 music channels, 50 channels of news, sports, and talk programs.
ABC		Television	Disney. Alex Wallau	Disney, Buena Vista Television. 10 TV stations and more than 55 radio stations and 225 affiliate stations
NBC		Television	GE. Robert Wright	29 company stations and more than 220 US affiliates. Owns MSNBC and CNBC with Dow Jones. Telemundo, Vivendi Universal
CBS		Television	Leslie Moonves	Viacom, King World Productions, UPN, 200 affiliates including 20 stations
FOX		Television	Rupert Murdoch	FX, National Geographic Channel, Clear Channel Communications Inc. Operates 200 TV station affiliates, 37 are company owned
CNN		Cable Television	Jim Walton, Ted Turner (President)	AOL, Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, CNN Newsource.Operates 36 news bureaus worldwide (11 in the USA)
A&E		Cable Television	Nickolas Davatzes	A joint venture of Hearst (37.5%), Walt Disney's ABC Cable (37.5%), and General Electric's NBC (25%).
NewsWorld International		Cable Television	Joel Hyatt, Al Gore (Chairman)	Recent purchase from Vivendi. Programming provided by Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC)
Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.		Television	David J. Barrett. (Hearst family 40%)	60 stations in 40 markets reach 25% of USA homes.
Sinclair Broadcasting		Television	David D. Smith. (Julian Sinclair Smith Family 95%)	62 stations. 27 stations in over 24 markets, reaches 17% of USA homes. Also 2 radio stations. Mostly affiliated with ABC and NBC.
LIN TV Corp.		Television	Gary R. Chapman	25 stations
Univision Communications Inc.		Television	A. Jerrold Perenchio	Reaches 97% of hispanic homes. 25 owned and 53 affiliate stations and 1,180 cable affiliates and Galavisión. Operates TeleFutura which owns 31 stations
Comcast		Cable	Brian Roberts	MGM, E!, AT&T Broadband. 21.5 million subscribers
Time Warner Cable		Cable	Glenn Britt	Road Runner. Comcast owns 21%. 10.9 million subscribers
Cox Communications		Cable	James Kennedy	6.5 million customers (Cable, Internet)
Adelphia		Cable	-	Assets sold to Time Warner and Comcast. 5 million subscribers
Charter Communications		Cable	Paul Allen	6.5 million customers in 40 states
Galavisión		Cable	Univision	5.5 million customers. Spanish language cable network
DirecTV		Satellite	Hertenstein (CEO)	News Corporation. 11.2 million subscribers
Echostar		Satellite	Hergen (CEO)	The DISH network. 11 million subscribers
Christian Networks
Sky Angel Network		Satellite Distribution	-	Angel One, Angel Two, KTV, TVU, Guardian Television Network, FaithTV, TBN, 3ABN, SafeTv, Cornerstone Television, Daystar, Christian Television Network, Golden Eagle Broadcasting, Liberty Channel, The Inspiration Network, FE TV, Gospel Music Television Network, Worship, FamilyLand, World Harvest Television
Dominion Sky Angel		Satellite	-	Angel One, Angel Two, KTV
3ABN		Satellite Programming	SDA	Three Angel's Broadcasting Network.
TBN		Cable	Paul & Jan Crouch	Trinity Broadcasting Network
Super Channel		Cable	Claud Bowers	TBN affiliate
EWTN		Cable	Catholic	Eternal World Television Network
Fammily Friendly Programming Promoters
Family Friendly Forum		Advertisers	48 ANA companies	Promotes the development of programs for the Association of National Advertisers.
Parent Television Council		Parents	L. Brent Bozzell	Rates and recommends family friendly programs and tries to improve television entertainment. Has over 860,000 members
Foreign Media
CanWest		Multimedia	Canada Israel Asper	Largest owners of many television and newspaper companies in Canada, Fireworks, CanWest Entertainment. Owns 72% of the radio networks in Canada.
Grupo Televisa, S.A.		Multimedia	Mexico Emilio Azcárraga Jean	230 affiliated stations, 190 company owned. 31% of Cablevisión, 60% of Innova satellite and 30% of SKY DHS, 17 Mexican radio stations. Publishes though "Editorial Televisa"
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)		Multimedia	British Government	Operates two public TV channels, a 24 hour cable news channel, digital channels, five national radio networks, and an online news service. The BBC World Service broadcasts radio programming in more than 40 languages and is the sole source of news in some parts of the world.
Government Media
(NPR) National Public Radio		Radio	Kevin Klose	United States, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia. 140 radio stations, 30 million satellite homes, 7 million cable homes in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, on shortwave, AM/FM worldwide, satellite (Europe, North Africa, Middle East) and WorldSpace
(AFRTS) Armed Forces Radio and Television Service		Multimedia	USA Government Department of Defense	Uses 7 satellites to serve department of defense employees and families in the United States, on navy ships and abroad.
(IBB) International Broadcasting Bureau		Multimedia	USA Government Seth Cropsey (BBG)	Located in Springfield Virginia. USA Government owned and controlled. Managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). Spreads propaganda to unfriendly nations through several radio, television and satellite companies.
»	Voice of America	Radio	USA	February 24, 1942, Broadcasts in 32 languages to 94 million people worldwide.
»	Radio Farda	Radio	USA	Broadcasts in Persian from Washington and Prague to Iran.
»	Radio Sawa	Radio	USA	March 2002. Broadcasts in Arabic from Washington and Dubai. Spreads propaganda to the Middle East to listeners under 30. FM Stations: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah Amman, West Bank, Northern Jordan, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Manama, Baghdad, Erbil, Sulimaniyah, Basra, Rabat,Casablanca, Djibouti, Tangier Medium wave: Egypt, Levant, Iraq and The Gulf Satellite: Nilesat, Arabsat, Eutelsat Hotbird
»	Radio / TV Marti	Multimedia	USA	Broadcasts to Cuba.
»	Radio Free Asia	Radio	USA	Broadcasts in 10 languages to China, Tibet, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and North Korea .
»	Radio Liberty	Radio	USA	Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty and Radio Free Afghanistan. Broadcasts in 32 languages to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
»	Worldnet	Multimedia	USA	Television and film services
»	Al Hurra	Satellite	USA	"The Free one" started broadcasting in Arabic on February 14, 2004 from Springfield VA. It reaches 170 million people in 22 Muslim countries and will soon be beamed to Europe. The mission is to combat the influence of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya.
Al Iraqia		Satellite	Iraq	Iraq news. Al Jazeera has been banned for supporting the insurgency
Al Jazeera		Satellite	Qatar	November 1996 and is based in Doha, Qatar. Most popular Arabic source of news. Was a joint venture between BBC and Saudi Arabia
Al Arabiya		Satellite	Dubai	Popular Arabic source of news
Al Manar		Satellite	Lebanon	"The Beacon". (1991) Hezbollah. Propaganda against America and Israel.
?		Publishing	USA Army	February 2005 news reports that the army has created many "Internet News" sites to target specific groups.
?		Satellite	Britain	BBC is planning on starting another Arab language television station
As I write this, Vivendi Universal sold some of its assets to NBC. The new company may be called NBC Universal. It is 80% owned by GE. Already, at least three companies are beyond the legal limit of their size and influence. That is why the change in FCC (Federal Communications Commission) rules is important. Some have speculated that the reason why the networks were so biased in the war was because they did not want to upset the government as they were in the process of changing the FCC rules. What is new in 2004? NRA News. The National Rifle Association wants to buy a television network so that they can promote their point of view. On June 17, 2004 they began a three hour satellite radio broadcast called NRA news. They want to use the forum to avoid campaign advertising laws which are restricted during the last 19 days. Therefore, they will openly disguise attack campaigns as news. 911 Initiative. The "911 Initiative" is a bill born in the Senate Foreign relations committee to invest $500 million to create a new Pan-Arab satellite channel to compete against Al-Jazeera and influence Muslim youth. The network is called Al Hurra. For the past two years MTV has been working on creating a gay cable channel called "Logo". Air America Radio. Apparently there are no liberal owned or controlled radio networks. Political Liberals are trying to start a radio network that will solve the problem of their ban from the Clear Channel Network. They apparently have a ban on other radio networks also because Infinity Broadcasting is controlled by Viacom and CBS. Therefore CBS is not a liberal group, they are under conservative control. Cumulus Media arranged for the public burning of the Dixie Chicks records. Remember they said ... About The Insurgency. » There is no insurgency. » Only a few disgruntled men. » It is in its "last throes". About The Duration. » The violence will stop after:   • Sovereignity is returned.   • The elections.   • The next elections.   • The final elections.   • Six months maximum.   • Maybe 6, 8, 12 years.   • The long war. About The Reasons. • Weapons of mass destruction • Weapons program. • Iraq involved in 911. • Install a friendly government. • Freedom for Iraq. • This is God's will. • Freedom is on the march. • Invited by the Iraqi government • To enforce a UN resolution. About The Cost. • It will not cost $200 billion. • We don't need more troops. • There will be no draft. • It will be a quick war. About The Ease. • Cake walk! • Greeted as liberators • In and out immediately! • No one will die! • Shock and awe! So Air America Radio, a progressive talk radio network will hit the airwaves on March 31, 2004. It was created to provide access to the radio by people with liberal political views. If they refuse to simply be the opposite of Clear Channel, then maybe other viewpoints will at least have a marginal chance of getting some exposure. If they simply befriend what the conservatives hate and trash all that the conservatives love then they will turn out to be no better. By June 2005 they were on 64 stations. They have been picked up by Clear Channel. I am nervous about that. It appears to be a policy of keeping your enemies close, not just profit. At some point, they will remove their support when Air America is financially vulnerable and depend on the revenue stream provided by the Clear Channel stations. I believe, that this is the organization who threatened to stop playing the records of artists who opposed the war. This is the same organization that one person threatened to leave if they allowed Randi Rhodes to be on the network. The Power of Money. Rupert Murdoch used his political influence to stop the sale of DirecTV to a smaller company named EchoStar and his emerging monopoly has just swallowed up DirecTV for $6.6 billion. As I researched I came to hate FOX because I hate people who abuse their power. And, as FOX is promoting the agenda of the moral right and censoring all other opinions, it is ironic that it is simultaneously destroying the morals of the youth because trash TV and sex is profitable. Their programming conflicts with their politics and preaching. But I came to realize that eventually FOX will suffer the same fate as Haman. As Haman plotted to take over the world and destroy his enemies God must have been laughing. If only Haman could have seen the future. Murdoch may soon realize that he cannot take it with him. There are some things that money cannot buy. Health and peace. God is laughing. What is new in 2005? Democrats Crippled. One party is crippled and afraid to act. Cheer up folks, it does not mean that you are wrong. It just means that God has decided that nothing will impede the fortunes of the religious right. You will have a final role to play if you are fair. Liberal Voices Stifled. Liberal news personalities are disappearing by accident or design. Religious Consolidation. New pope, new religious and political organizations. New emphasis on religious content in the media. Truth blackout. Instead of giving all points of view a really fair hearing, the conservatives are now doing what the liberals did. Spin. But extremely malicious. Censorship and ridicule gone out of control. Predatory Economics. Freedom is on the march for oil companies, bankers, big business and friends of the rich. Iraq. After three years we still cannot get security, jobs, clean water and electricity to Iraq. Their citizens are being blown up by the hundreds every week. In the middle of May there were more car bombs that month than all of 2004. Over 500 dead so far. The only jobs they are herded into is to sacrifice themselves as road kill. BBC Arabic. BBC is planning to start another Arabic television station. Al Jazeera is now a bad step child. What is new in 2006? Then there were Five. Two of our six broadcast networks are merging. CBS and Time Warner are merging UPN and the WB to form a new network called "The CW". It is targeted at a younger audience. Pixar. February. Disney bought Pixar animations for $7.4 billion. Disney. February 6. Disney sold its radio stations to Citadel corporation for over $2 billion. What is new in 2007? The creepy News Corporation gets bigger. Satellite Radio Merger. February 20. XM Satellite and Sirius are beginning merger talks. Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal. May 2007. Ruport Murdoch is trying to buy them for $5 billion cash, buy prestige and try to own information distribution. God save us! The new offer gives the Bancroft family $1.2 billion. Apparently, there was an earlier offer of $2 billion which was refused. But by the end of June, we proved that anyone can be bought. The deal was finalized July 31. I could not think of a person who most deserves to be on top of the media and financial poopy pile when God causes the total global financial collapse. Murdoch plans to launch a new FOX business channel. It is worth monitoring this travesty just to see what financial areas will be targeted by God for destruction. Because it will most likely be what they recommend or try to support. BCE and Telus. The top two Canadian telecommunications companies may merge. What is new in 2008? Cablevision to buy Newsday for $650 million deal. Rupert Murdoch made a bid in April for $580 million.

Media Moguls
A few men are associated with these giant Media companies. Most of the other media giants are associated with public companies without such powerful leaders.

• Rupert Murdoch. Head of News Corporation. He is taking over the United States, Australia and Europe. A political conservative but liberal, even trashy programming. Conservatism does not affect decisions on what is profitable. While he entertains the masses, he controls what is news. And he is a political conservative.
  What makes him stand out above the rest is his worldwide reach and his media diversification and his need to have information reflect his personal views. He is in both print, movies, cable, satellite and network television.
  When his media ownership reached 39% and the federal limit was 33%, he got the republican congress to change the rules just for him. Influence and power can be bought, sold and bartered for propaganda.
• Ted Turner. Time Warner. He has the reputation of hating "Jesus Freaks". So the conservative's best hope of gaining influence over the news is to capture and subdue Ted and his global network. However, CNN might have already been infiltrated. They bend over for the government just as much as FOX.
• John Malone. Liberty Media.
• Israel Asper. Rules Canada. Censors journalists who have a different viewpoint.
• BBC. British government owned media country. Since their empire was spread worldwide, the BBC did develop principally as a global news organization, not a British government propaganda organization. It is available worldwide. However, since the firing of two top officials in 2004 for news stories that were negative to the British government and complaints from the Catholic church about negative publicity, the days of government independence are in jeopardy.
• IBB. The United States owned international media company. Purely propaganda to non democratic countries and enemies of the United States.

Radio Television Satellite News Paper (Print Media)
Global Influence (2003)
Region	News Corporation				Liberty Media				Time Warner				CanWest Global				IBB
United States					-			-					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Canada	-				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-					-	-	-	-
Britain					-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Europe					-		-	-	-			-	-	-	-	-				-
Australia	-				-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-		-	-	-	-	-	-
New Zealand	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-				-	-	-	-	-	-
Latin America	-			-	-	-		-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-				-
Asia	-			-	-		-	-	-				-	-	-	-				-
Japan	-			-	-		-	-	-		-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
China	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-		-		-	-	-	-				-
Middle East	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			-	-	-	-	-				-
Other Regions	Radio	USA, UK, Europe, Sweden			-				USA				Canada, New Zealand				Cuba, Middle East, Asia, Soviet Union, Europe
	TV	USA, Germany, Australia			USA, UK, Japan, Europe, Argentina, Australia				USA, China (soon)				Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland				Cuba, Middle East, Asia, Soviet Union, Europe
	Cable	USA, UK, Germany, Australia, Canada, Asia, India, Italy, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Japan, Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Chile)			USA, UK, Chile, Argentina, Ireland, Japan, Puerto Rico				USA, Latin America, Asia, Europe, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Hungary, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Japan, China, Korea				Canada				-
	Satellite				USA, Latin America				USA				-				Global
	Print	USA, UK, Canada, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua, Europe, Sweden			-				USA, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands				Canada				Internet News outlets managed by the Army. Traditionally, the State Department did this type of work.
	Internet	myspace.com			USA, UK, Australia				USA, China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, Philippines, India				-				Global
Other Companies	UK: 40% BSkyB. News International Asia. 100% Star TV. USA. DirecTV and 82.7% ASkyB Brazil. 36% Sky Brazil Mexico. 30% Sky Mexico Germany: 66% TM3 sold in 2000.				18% News Corp				CNN				New Zealand: RadioWorks (72%)				Voice of America, Al Hurra, Radio SAWA, Radio Farda, Radio Marti, TV Marti
Global reach	75%				-				Many countries				-				Global
Purpose	Profit				Profit				Profit				Profit				Propaganda
Owner	Rupert Murdoch				John Malone				Ted Turner				Israel Asper				United States

Foreign Companies

• British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) is the leading satellite provider in the United Kingdom.
• News International produces the Sun, Times, Sunday Times and News of the World in the United Kingdom.

Profile

2003 Demographics
Network	Age	Programming	Minority	Homosexuality	Religion	Evolution	News	Entertainment
NBC	All	Mixed	Gays	Yes	Catholic	Yes	Conservative	Liberal
ABC	All	Mixed	No	Unknown	Catholic	Yes	Conservative	Liberal
CBS	All	Mixed	No	Unknown	Catholic	Yes	Balanced	Conservative
FOX	All	Mixed	Gays	Yes	None /Occult	Yes	Conservative	Liberal
UPN	All	Mixed	African	Yes	None /Occult	Yes	Conservative	Liberal
CNN	All	News	No	Yes	None	Yes	Conservative	None
Bravo	All	Movies	Gay	Yes	Hedonism	Yes	Not applicable	Liberal
MTV	Youth	Music	Yes	Yes	None/Occult	Yes	Not applicable	Liberal
VH1	Youth	Music	Yes	Yes	None/Occult	Yes	Not applicable	Liberal

Paradoxically, while I get the impression that the CBS news personnel are more atheist or secular, their programming tends to be more family friendly than the other networks who are backed by conservative managers and owners. This may be because Viacom puts most of their smut on MTV and VH1.
This strategy may be the source of CBS' secret to being number one. It is certainly the reason why I left NBC. Except for two shows, I could not find anything to watch anymore.

Retirement

Many respected journalists are "retiring" at the end of the year. The people who can stand in the wave of a total conservative control of the news are being swept away.

Television Programming
The history of Television programming shows no deliberate attempt to consistently promote one Christian religion until the late 1990's. In the eighties, occult and "new age" beliefs replaced the moral undercurrents of the earlier decades. But except for television specials, these views were not held in common among the major characters.

There are just a few television show formats and they generally ignore religion.

• Situation Comedies. Thirty minute shows centered around one central person or group and the funny situations that arise in a normal day. These shows generally do not deal with religion but they have lately been on a mission to promote homosexuality. But lately the CBS programs are beginning to promote religion openly and through the background sets.
• Comedy - Variety. An older style of program featuring Hollywood celebrities performing on stage.
• Game Shows. Allow ordinary people to earn substantial sums of money through their own intellect or sense of fun.
• Talk Shows. These are the styles.
  • Celebrity Interview. Center around interviewing a movie star. They are nothing more than publicity stops for new movies and records.
  • Trash. Shows that claim to present real issues to the studio audience. What they generally pursue is deviant behavior, lifestyles and situations.
  • Infomercial. Half hour shows designed to sell a product.
  • Religion. Religious broadcasts.
• Hollywood Promotional. They are disguised as news or talk shows but they are really meant to promote the Hollywood people and products. Access Hollywood, Celebrity Justice, Kickin' it, Entertainment Tonight, The E! true Hollywood Story.
  • Promotional. Programs center on the life, projects, triumphs and trials of celebrities.
  • Paid Interviews. This is sneaky. Programs are in the format of a morning news or talk show but celebrities pay the networks to be "interviewed". There used to be a time when networks paid celebrities to visit their shows.
• News.
  • Network News. Public information.
  • Debates. Sunday morning debates and discussions by experts.
  • News Magazines. Explore stories in depth in order to expose something important.
  • National Morning News. They have slowly evolved into a clone of QVC and infomercials with very little news.
• Sports. Professional and amateur events.
• Children.
  • Cartoons. Animated programs that generally introduce the occult and ancient gods to children. Today they are also introducing homosexuality.
  • Educational. Generally try to teach evolution.
• Soap Operas. Afternoon programs that center around the people in a town and their immoral behavior. These show can be credited with making the villain and the evil person an admirable state of being. Simultaneously, good was a boring, lifeless status to be avoided.
• Reality. Real people at their ordinary jobs or in artificial situations.
  • Professionals. Shows centered around dangerous professions such as policemen and emergency medical technicians.
  • Trash. Game shows that center around controversial immoral behavior.
  • Common. Originally it showcased a subset of common people, but it is becoming another means by which the pampered rich and famous show off their wealth, talent, problems and superiority. A giant Hollywood family infomercial.
• Period Dramas. Dramas centered around a particular time period. This includes westerns and science fiction.
• Dramas. Night time shows that center around three professions, medical, legal and detective. They appeal to the public because of the potential to solve a mystery and the danger and action that are involved in the resolution of a crime. While dramas have been historically neutral to religion and morality, they have now become a method through which religion is discussed. It is this type of programming on which this article will focus.
• Limited Series. Shows which last for one season. These began around 2004 when dramas began imitating the shortened cycle of reality television.

Programming

Year	Prime Time Television Dramas	Majority Theme	Majority Religion
1940-49	Voice Of Firestone Televues (44-47), The World In Your Home (44-48)	Documentary	Morality
	Milton Berle Show (48-67), Ed Sullivan Show (48-71), Perry Como Show (48-63), Ripley's Believe It Or Not (49-86), Morey Amsterdam Show (48-50), The Original Amateur Hour (48-50), Cavalcade Of Stars (49-52), Club Seven (48-51), This Is Show Business (49-56)	Comedy, Variety, Fashion	Morality
	Studio One (48-58), Kraft Television Theatre (47-58), Suspense (49-64), Fireside Theatre (49-63), Ford Theatre (49-57), Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, Hands of Mystery, Man Against Crime (49-56), Martin Kane - Private Eye (49-54), They Stand Accused (49-54)	Dramatic anthology, Detective	Morality
1950-59	Gunsmoke (55-75), Wagon Train (57-65), Maverick (57-62), Tales Of Wells Fargo (57-62), The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp (55-61), Lone Ranger (49-57), The Lawman (58-62), The Rifleman (58-63), Bonanza (59-73), Cheyenne (55-63), Dragnet (52-70), Have Gun Will Travel (57-73), Lassie (54-71), Maverick (57-62), Annie Oakley Show (53-57), Zorro (57-59)	Western, adventure	Morality
	Playhouse 90 (56-61), Perry Mason (57-74)	Dramatic anthology	Morality
1960-69	The Big Valley, Daniel Boone, High Chaparral, Carrol Burnett Show (67-79)	Western, Variety	Morality
	It Takes A Thief, I Spy, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible (66-90), The Saint, T.H.E. Cat	Spy	Neutral
	Adam 12 (68-75), F.B.I, Hawaii Five-O (68-80), Hawk (66-76), Ironside (67-75), Mod Squad (68-73), Mannix, Ironside (67-75), Marcus Welby, M.D. (69-76), Ben Casey (60-65), Dr. Kildare (61-66), Medical Center (69-76)	Detective, Medical	Neutral
	Star Trek (66-69), The Invaders, Lost In Space, Land Of The Giants, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone (59-65), Time Tunnel, Dark Shadows, Tarzan, Daktari, Dr. Who (63-92)	Sci-Fi, Adventure	Neutral
1970-79	Fantasy Island (78-84), Love Boat (77-86), Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Neutral
	Eight Is Enough (77-81), The Waltons, Little House On The Prairie (74-83), Columbo (71-93), McMillan And Wife, McCloud, Tenafly, Banacek, Snoop Sisters, Charlie's Angels (76-81), Police Story (73-88), Rookies, CHiPS, Ellery Queen, Harry-O, The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Kung Fu, Kojak (73-90), Lou Grant (77-82), Baretta, Rockford Files, S.W.A.T., Vega$, Starsky And Hutch, Quincy M.E., Emergency, Streets of San Francisco	Detective	Neutral
1980-89	Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing (79-93), The Yellow Rose, Falcon Crest, Highway to Heaven, 21 Jump Street, Thirtysomething, Beauty and the Beast, Star Trek: The Next Generation (87-94), St. Elsewhere, Trapper John M.D, Cops	Soap, Sci-Fi, Medical, other	Neutral
	Hill Street Blues, Wiseguy, Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Airwolf, The Equalizer, Father Dowling Mysteries (89-91), The Fall Guy, A-Team, Hunter, Hart To Hart (79-84), Hardcastle & McCormick, Jake And The Fatman (87-92), Knight Rider, Murder She Wrote (84-96), Moonlighting, Mancuso FBI (89-93), Miami Vice, Matt Houston, Magnum, P.I., MacGyver (85-92), T.J. Hooker, Matlock (86-95), L.A. Law (86-94)	Detective, Legal	Neutral
1990-99	The X-Files, The Sentinel, Kung Fu, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (92-99), Star Trek: Voyager (95-2001), Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Farscape, Millennium, Psi Factor (96-2000), Highlander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hercules, Xena, Charmed (98-), So Weird	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Occult
	Touched By An Angel (94-), 7th Heaven, Quantum Leap, ‡ Seven Days (98-)		Neutral
	ER, Chicago Hope, Dr. Quinn, Third Watch, Twin Peaks, Beverly Hills 90210, Northern Exposure, Dawson's Creek, America's Most Wanted	Medical, other	Neutral
	Nash Bridges, Murder One, Profiler, Due South, Diagnosis Murder, The Hardy Boys, Jag, Lois & Clark (93-97), La Femme Nikita, Mike Hammer, ‡ The Pretender (96-2000), Ally McBeal, V.I.P., Walker Texas Ranger	Detective, Legal	Neutral
	The X-Files (93-02), The Practice (97-), Jag, ER, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Judging Amy	Detective, Legal	Catholic
2000-03	CSI, CSI: Miami, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Crossing Jordan, The District, The Agency, Boomtown, Monk, Hack, Without a Trace, The Guardian, L.A. Dragnet, The Lyon's Den, American Dreams, Threat Matrix, Joan of Arcadia, The Brotherhood of Poland New Hampshire, Navy NCIS, Cold Case	Detective, Forensic, Legal	Catholic
	Survivor, Amazing race, Big Brother, Temptation Island, Race to the altar, For love or money, Paradise Hotel, Boy meets boy	Reality	Immorality
Please note that the "Religion" column does not suggest that all the shows promote this ideology. It shows that when they do, the majority support this view as religion. ‡ Also, certain shows that I have defined as neutral, have assigned the religion of the main character as a Catholic. By 2003, almost every show has a major character who is Catholic. This is a change from the earlier years of agnosticism. But my point is, in a age of balance and return to religion, "Why are Protestants virtually absent?".
Shows listed are only prime time dramas. Not all shows are listed. Other sources have listed the following as shows with religious content. They have emerged since the 1990s. I never saw them. They never lasted. Nothing Sacred (ABC), Soul Man (ABC), Promised Land (CBS), Good News (UPN), Sunday Dinner, Heaven Help Us, The Visitor and Teen Angel. The Calling (ABC), Father Lefty (CBS), The Sopranos. Earlier shows include: Highway to Heaven, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy, the Father Dowling Mysteries and Thirtysomething. Comedy. In the area of comedy, few shows were centered around religion. The flying nun and Amen are the only comedies that I can remember that are exclusively centered around religious characters. Other shows have individual characters that spend time in church. Florence from the Jeffersons regularly went to church. The Simpsons is currently the only show where families regularly go to church. In this case, religion is ridiculed. However, this year I have seen "Still Standing", a CBS situation comedy embrace Jesus so much that they actually mentioned Him by name. And expressed their love for Him while holding a statue of Him. And, I am not sure, but I think they also mentioned love for Mary. I am waiting for the rerun to verify what I thought I heard. Just last week (October 2004), I saw an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and there was a crucifix displayed prominently on the wall of the classroom. On "According to Jim", he visited a priest when he had a moral dilemma about cheating an old woman. Two and a half men, started with a divorced wife who became a lesbian. This season they have dropped the lesbian angle. I wonder when they will embrace Catholicism. CBS has clearly got a religious agenda. Andy Rooney may be their last agnostic dinosaur. I do not watch these comedy shows often, yet what are the odds that of the two to four shows that I might see in a year that I would find religion and only Catholicism? Soap Operas. I refuse to watch them, even though I want to see what topics they are selling. But I got lucky. Yesterday, someone felt compelled to tell me about the strange story lines of two soap operas that she watches. I wonder what the rest are doing. "All my Children" and "One Life to Live" now include a Catholic story line, complete will praying to Mary and dead saints and priests with supernatural powers. Imagine, soap operas embracing religion for reasons other than selling wedding gowns! Other Articles. I have only been able to find two articles that deal with the subject of religion on television and they mostly list the names of old shows with religious content. But the article by Stewart M. Hoover and J. Jerome Lackamp called "Religion on Television" makes the following observation: In the 50-year history of television in the United States, fewer than two dozen series or pilots have featured religious persons in leading or title roles. The majority of these were Roman Catholic, with only nine non-Catholic examples.

History: Sixty Years of Television Drama
1940's. Live dramas and musical variety, debates, interviews and talent shows were the main staple of early television. This was reality programming at its best. These live serial shows were just the visual extension of radio "soap operas".
There was generally morality and religion was a part of the episode if it belonged to the period. Even then, after watching every episode of Gunsmoke, I found that there were very few episodes centered around any religion.

1950's. Commercial color television began broadcasting in 1954. During this period, western shows dominated television. Religion was still just a moral undercurrent.

1960's. At the height of the cold war, when Americans were thinking about bomb shelters and nuclear strikes, espionage became a major theme in many popular shows.
This was an era when we battled the evil unknown. Communism, space aliens and scientific discoveries became potential enemies. Whereas the westerns showed how we tamed our enemies in the past, the sixties dramas show how we can face the enemies of the present and future. We proved that we can be invincible with science and without God.

1970's. After the 1970's more sex and violence entered television programming because we had just experienced the sexual revolution of the late sixties. Religion was generally relegated to weddings and funerals. But I can honestly say that there did not appear to be a preference for any particular religion even though the religious figures appeared to be Catholic. I attribute this to the fact that the costume was more easily recognizable.

1980's. In the 1980's and early 1990's television was openly hostile to religion. It promoted occult, evolution and homosexual themes, but in the process of doing this it not only ignored traditional Christianity, it ridiculed it.

1990's. In the late 1990's and after, we are seeing a counter revolutionary movement. The industry has kept the sex and violence and have even exceeded the immorality of the 1980's. By 1994, Dionne Warrick and her "Psychic Friends Network" paved the way for many other psychic infomercials. But, one recurrent theme has been surfacing in the past six years and it is the introduction of Catholicism. The one disturbing issue with this trend is that Protestantism (the majority religion in the United States) is completely ignored.
I will agree that the cute penguin outfits of the nuns, the potential for drama in the confessional and the public problems of pedophile priests do bring creative elements to the story that are harder to exploit in the boring Protestant churches. But these programs have gone beyond the picture of the church as a sterile place for weddings and funeral, it has blossomed into a presentation of religion as a moral choice. In particular, Catholicism is routinely presented as the only religion of choice.

So after it became apparent that many shows were written to defend the Catholic church during the pedophile crisis, I had to wonder if there was not a mastermind behind all this. Someone who saw the opportunity to approach these creators and writers with an appeal to their Catholic roots or the Catholic power.
And why is this important? Studies show that themes presented on television have the power to change a society within fifteen years.

Commercials, Fake News and Media Whores

Commercials Per Hour Network Program Total Minutes Number NBC The Today Show 22 50 ABC Good Morning America 18 49 CBS The Early Show 20 49 FOX FOX News Live 12 29 CNN Headline News 15 27 CNN American Morning 17 38 MSNBC News 17 39 NBC Nightly News 15 44 CBS Evening News 16 52 ABC World News Tonight 15 58 For 20 minutes of every hour you are watching about 50 commercials.

As I researched and audited various programs, I came to realize that the morning news is one giant commercial with four legitimate news stories. There is no true journalism remaining on commercial television. The commercials are hidden and packaged as many different segments which are all designed to make you buy, buy, buy!

• Traditional Commercials. There are about fifty of these commercials every hour on network television, accounting for about twenty minutes of that time!
• Sponsors. Different segments are sponsored by a major company.
• Previews. Networks use the previews to advertise what is coming on the morning show within the next half hour and what is being shown on the network that day. They also use the previews to break up the commercials so that you think that you are not watching twenty commercials in a row.
• Interviews. All the interviews, segments and musicals are designed to sell a book, a movie, a television show or some music. The celebrities actually pay to have these interviews. The interview is therefore biased and serves as an advertising vehicle with no credible journalism behind it.
• Subliminal Signs. A recent trend is to place a sign advertising the name of the product beside both people in an interview. So the written words and images are visible no matter where the camera is focused.
• Sex Tapes. How did FOX promote the reality show of two unknown, no talent, spoilt, rich girls who do not deserve a minute's occupancy in my brain cells?
  • Leak the news that some malicious boyfriend released a private sex tape.
  • Put it on the internet and make an apology tour that gives them credibility and sympathy.
  • Repeat the story on the news and in late night comedy and all talk shows.
  • Then release the cheesy television show.
  • Make me want to shoot myself or my television.
  I remember saying "Who is Paris Hilton and why is Jay Leno still making jokes about her"?. After her name kept surfacing on many shows I knew that a television show was coming. I had learned to recognize the marketing tricks.
  What new low did I learn from this? Even the comedy on Jay Leno and David Letterman may be economically motivated. It is entirely possible that they may be paid for the comedy routines as the morning news is paid for their journalistic "interviews".

  Commercial Morals In the ten to forty five seconds in which they exist, commercials sell a moral message. Sex, sex, sex. Science and technology is our only hope. You will be left behind if you do not buy. Follow the beautiful crowd. Always get the upper hand. Beauty is truth. Money is truth. Religion has no real answers. Love can be bought and sold and displayed.

• Consumer Science. The recent cosmetic surgery shows are a thinly disguised commercial.
• Consumer Unfriendly News. The news is increasingly being used to promote a commercial agenda.
  A news story can be used as a commercial by generating interest, minimizing legitimate concerns and increasing brand recognition. It may also be used to promote government economic interests at the expense of consumer information and safety.
  • A competitor poisoned tylenol capsules in hopes that the negative publicity would ruin the company.
  • The year 2000 scare caused businesses to invest in software and hardware that they did not need.
  • In 2003-2004, the influenza scare sold flu shots, test kits and new inhaled vaccines that had been experiencing disappointing sales. The continued media coverage magnified the scare and sold products that in previous years had to be destroyed because of lack of sales.
  • The media skillfully avoided asking questions about mad cow and the United States animal feed program. They technically did not tell a lie. But they did not ask the question that they should have asked. Certainly, the USA has banned the feeding of animals to their own species. But cows still eat chicken manure, sawdust, deer, dogs, cats, horses, pesticides and road kill. These animals can also have this disease.
    
    The Case of the Almost Vegetarian Mad Cows. I wondered if the media has been privately banned from making these statements, because it would ruin the economy. My skepticism increased even more as I watched a January 4, 2004 interview on CNN with Julie of NewsWeek magazine. In describing what was wrong with the animal feed industry, she made the following statements.
    • It is our responsibility to find out what we are putting in our bodies.
    • The food ban says that "Cows should not eat other cows".
    • We should understand that cows need to be vegetarian.
    Her advice was notable for what she did not say.
    "Cows are not vegetarian because they eat the brains of other animals which can also be infected with the prions that cause mad cow disease".
    The fact that she could not or did not say this and the skillful way in which she tried to list the facts so that you could make the connection is a testament to the fact that there is a ban on facts in the media.
    Our independent media is controlled.
    
    Another Feed Additive. In a related story that also broke on January 4, a company announced that it has developed an enzyme that destroys the prions that cause BSE/CFJ (Mad cow disease). Their solution is to put it in animal feed to kill any prions that might exist.
    The final effect is that you will be consuming even more chemicals that no one has studied for its cumulative and long term effect on animals and humans.
    Brilliant solutions like these have left us with drug resistant diseases and increased cancer rates and heart diseases in women.
    
    The Case of the Dyed in the Flesh Pink Salmon. News stories broke January 8 and 9, 2004 that farm raised animals were eleven times more toxic than wild salmon. The information has been available for years. Experts recommended that women should not eat it because the toxins accumulate over the years. If it is, it should not be eaten more than three times a year. Of course, within fifteen minutes, the government (FDA) and other lackeys immediately said that it was safe to eat. The story was squashed.
    
    Salmon raised on a fish farm are raised in the equivalent of a toilet pool. They are fed the same engineered food and are pumped with antibiotics because so many of them develop cancer, open sores and other diseases. By the time they are ready for market, their color is an unhealthy grey and they are fed pink dye so that they can look like wild salmon. This artificial dye Canthaxanthin (E161g) is known to affect the eye. So the European Union has regulated that this dye be cut by a factor of three since it is only for cosmetic effects.
    
    The Digital Divide. The 1996 telecommunications act and the 1998 digital conversions act passed by congress requires television stations to transmit a digital broadcast signal by May 2003 and all analog signals will stop broadcasting by December 31, 2006 when the FCC will not renew licenses after this date. In 2009 all analog signals will stop and the channels go back to the government to be redistributed.
    What this means is that the old analog television sets will not work after 2006 or 2009. It is possible that cable and satellite services may transmit a signal to their customers that is compatible with the old sets. This is the end of free television, unless you buy an expensive digital set. Will we still have free televison?
    
    Given the fact that the normal life span of a television is over ten years, it seems strange that no one is warning the consumers that the analog televisions they are now purchasing will soon be worthless.
    The market may be gearing up for selling convertors, or forcing people to subscribe to pay television, or paying a premium for converting cable signals back to analog. One thing is certain, the price of digital televisions will not go down for a while since manufacturers know that you have no choice.
    
    Fake News. During news segments, a commercial will be introduced as news. It will have a fake correspondent and shot to look as if it is legitimate news. The government used this tactic as it sold the stupid medicare prescription bill. And surprise! In April 2005 we learned that drug prices increased by 7%. Cost of living went up by 2% in the same period. The net effect is that prices increased for all who are not on the program. They increased or are back to previous levels for those on the program. Another administrative level has been added to increase the cost of care.
    
    Since we have laws about election commercials in the days before an election, it is critical that news organizations and their owners do not bypass the laws by doing something so dirty as disguising a commercial as news.
• Political Commercials and Assassinations as News.
  

  Consumer Psychology It is very clear that the field of psychology is at work. Psychology is being used in consumer products, commercials, political campaigns and apparently in news editing. We have really been sold to the devil in a business suit. The last global battle is truly a battle for the hearts and minds of the people. Satan is intent on controlling all avenues of public information and public control. He has controlled them through a network of human beings who delight in abusing power. These king makers, puppet handlers and power brokers make and break people at will. Often with the satisfaction of the lion at the kill. They control the people of the world and its resources without conscience. And they are masters at manipulating your emotions, telling you how you should think and feel and behave. Toads and Newts Sooner or later, whether or not these scurrilous toads embrace religion because of political expedience or ideology, they will resort to consorting with demons in a final bid to grasp on to their crumbling power. But the good news is that all the human demi-gods, all the evil geniuses who take pride in the power that they have will soon be swept away by the humble servants of the living God. And they will fall victim to their own rotten schemes and tricks. And one day they will fall into the hands of God.

  Networks have found a way to avoid strict campaign advertising rules and promote their candidate through carefully orchestrated news.
  • Political Commercials: The Tale of Two Governors. In the California governor's recall election it was clear who the media had selected to be victorious. There were a series of Arnold movies. But on the evening before the election, what the news did was simply unfair. As part of the "news" that was reported, they repeatedly showed a smiling Arnold among a sea of supporters with signs, children and confetti and cheers. The images were positive and bright. The tight shot made you assume that there was a large crowd. When they bothered to show Grey Davis he was on a platform in a dark room with a group of young black men and the camera drew back to show that the room was virtually empty. It is possible that Grey Davis did not orchestrate his media exposure and that there were no positive images to show. But maybe I am too gullible.
  • Political Assassinations: The Fall of a Rising Star. Howard Dean was popular. His campaign seemed unstoppable until someone decided that he had to go. He fell overnight. I bet the tire marks are still on his body and Dean is still wondering what ran over him.
    Howard Dean may have become the victim of a conspiracy by the evil geniuses who are manipulating the world. They are testing how well their network can use last minute propaganda to change public perception. It worked. With the help of an irresponsible, ignorant, dishonest and lazy crew of journalists it worked.
    In the "scream heard around the world", his speech was characterized as crazy, wild, unpresidential, a melt down, a break down, maniac, something gone wrong. Everyone repeated this characterization. No one talked about the obvious context. However the process began, we now see that overnight, the news media can change the perception of a candidate by announcing that there was a change and perpetuating the image by constantly repeating the charges. Brit Hume on FOX news claimed responsibility for the victory of George Bush in 2000 because of how he handled the news. Folks, when an organization does that they are not reporting news, they are conducting a political campaign.
    To bolster this claim, they edited the tape by removing the background noise and leaving out the context of the interplay between Dean and his audience.
    Yesterday (months later) I heard two CNN journalists admit that when they listened to the unedited tape that Dean was right. Then they chuckled over it, saying "So what. Who cares now?" They had done a hatchet job and they knew it. I care.
    
    Even as they consistently made these charges, I was wondering what had this guy done that was wrong. I thought that nothing was wrong with the speech. The fact is, the crowd was noisy and he had to scream to be heard. This was verified when someone listened to the unedited tapes. The fact is, it was simply a rally and he made a rallying cry.
    
    In the same way Kerry is being called a flip-flopper and no one challenges this. The primary evidence is his vote on the war. No one mentioned that with the carefully orchestrated lies that were fed to the congress, many had to vote for the war. No one could have imagined that anyone would risk the lives of our soldiers for revenge, oil or as a distraction from the lack of success in Afghanistan even if they thought that the war would last a short time.
    However, once they realized how devious and unreliable these people were, many had to change their vote until they could have some reasonable assurance that their questions were answered. They can no longer rubber stamp what the president requests.
    It is chilling to contemplate the power that these people have. They do real journalism when they want to challenge a position. However, they will allow known lies to appear as truth simply by repeating them and not discussing other evidence to the contrary.
  • Paid Pundits Propaganda (Media Whores). Surprise! Surprise! In January 2005 news reports disclosed that the government has been paying political pundits to promote its agenda. But I wrote this long page just because I have been suspicious about such activities. Now there is proof.
    We even learned that in the build up to the lies that sold this stupid war to the public, that the vice president's office would plant false stories in certain news papers and then quote these news papers in subsequent interviews. Of course I immediately caught on to these and also to the fact that the people who were doing the interviews were not acting like real journalists. They were just dumb stick figures nodding and repeating the lies of their guests.
    
    In Iraq we shut down news papers that we did not like and we have a hundred million dollar budget which is being used to plant stories in their "free press". That's right. We pay to have propaganda printed as unbiased news. But that should be no surprise. All of our so called liberal news outlets were and are still being used. Katrina and Abu Ghraib woke up some of them to the fact that they are whores and their customer has fleas.

It is all so disgusting that I do not know if I am being sold somebody's brand of lies and politics along with coffee and toilet paper. The news media have become the cheer leaders of big business and government.
They are dumping the responsibility of knowledge on your shoulders while pretending that they are a complete and accurate, fair and balanced source of consumer information.

I watch BBC and PBS. But they too have been compromised. On BBC I learn that there is a world full of people other than those in Washington and Hollywood. On PBS they spend several minutes on a news story instead of thirty seconds. I respect Bill Moyers. He demonstrates what good journalism is. Sadly, his show is being taken over by the opposition. I wonder how long David will last. Stand up to Goliath, David! Stand up! Moyers departure implements the policy of the government to put people in place on public television who will promote its agenda.
I think that I will read tea leaves or maybe watch Jon Stewart and his bevy of reporters. I have a greater chance of finding truth.

Religious Programming
Along with the pornography industry, religion has been foremost in capitalizing on the potential benefits of new technology. Especially in the field of communications.
The Voice of Prophecy was the first Christian broadcast on the radio. Every major religion is represented on television through their own programming and on private satellite networks. The majority of programs are too local to assess their content so that I can analyze their impact. But they appear to fall into some discrete groups, messages and ministries.

After spending a month in the south and watching these religious networks, I was disappointed. It was a confused, money grubbing carnival that neither reached my mind nor my spirit.
God will heal - for a donation. The size of your donation shows the amount of your faith. Usually the offering is collected between the time the healing is announced and the actual ceremony begins.
Some leaders look like pimps and live like them. Without making themselves a clone of secular networks, they all need an extreme makeover. The programming follows these formats.

• Sunday Morning Sermons The majority of ministries are from conservative southern Protestant congregations.
• Independent Family Owned Ministries. Robert Schuller in the "Hour of Power". The dynasties of Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.
• Prosperity Ministries. Crooks. They trap people who are looking for a better life into a dangerous mindset where they will reject God or hate themselves because they have no prosperity.
• Fake Healing and Prophecies. They usually accompany prosperity ministries.
• Prophecy Ministries. This topic is largely dominated by Southern Protestants and Seventh Day Adventists.
• Positive Thinking. The reality about many of these ministries is that they ignore the word of God so that they can embrace the morals of the popular culture.

Although it is not scientific, I rate a religious program by the amount of time they spend searching the scriptures and mentioning Jesus.
I found that few really study the Bible or mention texts other than those promising prosperity. And too many are under the grip of one powerful personality. It all gives the unsavory impression that the Christian religion is on sale. The impression one gets is that it is the domain of Christian families who control the dispensation of religion in the same way that the Mafia dons and ethnic gangs control the business sector.

Are God's gifts poured out on the preacher, his wife and children only? Of course not!

Who is Preaching Now?
For several years the media has been on a high horse about religion "preaching" to people. Well, they have taken the in-your-face fire and brimstone preaching and replaced it with overt brainwashing. How deceptive! How hypocritical!
The biggest of them all is Mongrel Television. This toilet network pushes their sex, lewdness and violence on the young, defying family viewing time rules and preaching their gospel of smut and consumerism. At the same time they have total conservative control over news and politics.
I once heard a quote from an executive of the company in which they plan to brainwash children so that they become the only source of news, entertainment, fashion and morals.
Well, just as I refuse to watch my toilet flush, I refuse to see or hear that network or their related companies. And any group that thinks that they are so popular and influential that they insist on bringing up this sludge from the sewer, I refuse to listen to either.

On a May 26, 2005 edition of "Access Hollywood", Tom Cruise was allowed to promote his religion of scientology for the whole half hour. Now that I know that all these shows can possible be paid access, either Hollywood is trying to spread scientology or the actor paid for the time.

Popular Culture
Popular culture normalizes the fringe element.
It is the religion of the fictional characters sold to the television audience with just as much fervor and self-righteousness as the old fire and brimstone preachers. It takes the lowest, ugliest, least popular behavior in society and elevates it to the ordinary in the world of television. It is what Hollywood tells us will be acceptable even if it represents the minority view point. The themes they create are no longer harmless fantasy worlds, they are meant to represent undiscovered truths or truths denied by the religious bigots.

Popular culture is now on a mission to Immerse us into Catholic life and culture. Why now? Why in this decadent environment? Less than ten years ago media personnel were very unfriendly to Christian personalities. You could barely say the words "Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" without being cut off. Interviewers would hear nothing about faith. But this has changed. There was a clear change in policy when the two missionary girls escaped Taliban captivity in Afghanistan. Have people on the morning news programs suddenly been converted?

I do not know the answer. My suspicion is that they have been sold on promoting national security at all costs and religion came as an unexpected baggage. But I see news programs airing poorly written prayers when they could just as easily show clips from the secular event that made the occasion "news worthy". This was never so.

According to popular culture, these are the issues of concern.

• Paranormal Television. It promotes occult beliefs, life after death and the evolution of morality.
• Religion and Family Values. New age religion used to be the spiritual norm. Now, Catholic family values is the newest genre.
• Sexual Freedom. Immorality without the consequences of disease and unwanted children.
• Homosexuality. Any position that is not totally on this side is wrong. But that may be changing.
• Heroic Violence. Perfectly executed with no consequences. Separates heroes from villains.
• Social Doctrine. Protection of the helpless. On the coat tails of valid, moral issues; popular culture champions every cause that is good social doctrine even if the issues include unsound religious doctrine. There is no distinction among the various problems that are involved in a complex issue. In its fight, there is only one remedy for every situation. Assimilation.
• Language. Bad language comes in the form of cursing, foul language or Homer and Bart Simpson's disrespect to God. What is strange about all this is that inappropriate language is never heard anywhere I go. If I have ever heard it, it is immediately followed by an apology. So I wonder whose speech or morality is being represented?

Homosexual Television.
This is such a prevalent phenomenon and one that is prophesied that I must mention the trend. What is strange is that homosexuals are only 1% - 2% of the population, while Asians, Latinos and African Americans individually are much more. Yet, many of these shows have none of these groups represented. Friends had to be shamed into introducing a black character in their final season.

Situation comedies have been consistently used to introduce homosexual characters. Programs such as Will and Grace, Two and a Half Men, Friends and Couples are some of the current shows. Couples introduces other topics such as bisexuality.
More dramas are introducing these characters. "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" on Saturday Night Live actually show the sexual positions and actions. This show is notorious for showing bestiality cartoons and sketches.
Many cartoons for children are showing men kissing each other. I remember when a cartoon never tried to teach me that I should be dating anyone. Boy or girl. This is the "preaching" by vice mongers that have angered conservatives.
Other shows are, Queer eye for the straight Guy, Queer as Folk, The Brotherhood of Poland New Hamshire, Ellen, Dawson's Creek, Six feet Under, The L Word, Boy meets boy, and most reality shows.

I watched an episode of The Brotherhood where they introduced a Gay minister. The message was that love was measured by acceptance, tolerance and sensitivity. Every other position is hatred. What was blamed for the hatred was tradition and fear. The words of the bible, the source of the tradition, was not mentioned. This show was quickly cancelled. It either had the wrong religion or the wrong message.

The Bible Speaks.
Everyone skips the issue of what the Bible says. Rather they argue that God does not condemn any loving sexual relationship. And "At the end of the day what truly counts is that he is a good man".

It is interesting to watch the arguments dance around the subject of the teachings of the bible. Especially when the episode is about a homosexual pastor coming out of the closet.
I once saw a news conference where a homosexual read the Bible and then spit in it. As if that would erase what God said. We no longer care what God says. I was so naive at eighteen, I wondered why people were demonstrating for the right to be happy (gay). And how was God stopping this happiness?

The issue is will we abandon the Bible and do what is right in our own eyes? Arguing for what we want instead of what God says that He can accomplish in us. Apparently we are in the process of labeling the bible as hate literature and so that we can abandon it and imprison those who live according to its teachings. The homosexual community has legally accomplished what African Americans never even thought of as a civil right. In Canada you can be imprisoned for five years if a homosexual "feels uncomfortable" by your words.

The Bible condemns all sins, liars and adulterers are listed with homosexuality. God even says that lust is adultery. Adulterers are not any purer or more moral in the eyes of God. In fact, I find it more troubling to be in the presence of an habitual liar. And adultery and neglect of God in the home is the greatest cause for the destruction of the family.

Religion on Television
In the beginning, television created religion as a moral undercurrent that governed the citizens in its fantasy world. As a reflection of the times, morality and respect were assumed. The bar girls on the westerns and the sex lives of unmarried couples became an issue that was left to the imagination. Children could watch these shows without being openly exposed to adult themes.

Occult and Agnostic Television.
Occult themes are interesting because they add to the element of mystery and open up a world of possibilities in a new reality. By ignoring the claims of the ten commandments and bowing to the changing standards of the popular culture, content creators naturally migrated to occult and eastern beliefs because they are evolutionary in nature. The standards of traditional Christianity are too rigid and can be linked to too many acts of hatred.

Star Trek is one of the few series that have subtly introduced popular culture thought.
The original series started with a criticism of racism. In the future, we see African Americans and Russians contributing as equals to the new way of life with a confederation of strange looking aliens from another planet. They managed to accomplish this future Utopia without religion.

Fast forward thirty years where Star Trek: The Next Generation, later added to the idea of the evolution of morality. Here the struggle against racism is equated to the struggle against Homophobia. It is assumed that just as we cannot change the color of our skin, we cannot change our sexual orientation. No distinction is made between sin, the fallen nature of man and God's ability to restore us to His ideal. No room is made for accepting the notion that this is desire that can be changed. They teach that those who advocate change through the power of God cannot simultaneously accept the person as a human being who deserves the right to work and live in safety.

In the enlightened future of ubiquitous space travel, God was merely a more advanced race, mistakenly deified by backward people. Evolution and scientific knowledge purges us of these beliefs. In many cases God was a malevolent and ineffective group of people like "the Q Continuum". The central moral theme suggested that as we evolve physically and socially, our moral beliefs must also evolve. The fifth season was a bonanza for social commentary on homophobia and life after death.

• "Transfigurations". John Doe of the planet Zalkon mutates into the next stage of evolution. Unfortunately, faced with the unknown, the members of his planet label him as "corrupted" and try to kill all those who are undergoing this mutation because they threaten the "natural order".
• "The Outcast". Riker meets Soren of the J'Naii race. They are an androgynous race who find the concept of gender as repugnant and deviant. Those who demonstrate tendencies toward one gender live a life of secrecy, pretense, and fear. They are labeled deviant, and are "cured" through brainwashing. When Soren confesses that she is female, she is tried for perversion. After treatment, Soren recognizes that her past actions are sick and is happy to be "normal" again.
• "The Next Phase". Ro questions her earlier skepticism about beliefs in an afterlife when a transporter accident leaves her body dead and makes her consciousness invisible to the rest of the crew. In a memorable dialogue, she criticizes the unenlightened who question the experience of others.

Star Trek Gender Benders.
Other Star Trek series tried to blur the line between male and female by introducing some interesting races that complicates the meaning of gender and sexuality.

• "Symbiot and Trill". A binary race. It is a being that is created by the voluntary fusion of a host and a parasite. The feelings and memories of the parasite is the principal consciousness that lives on when the host body dies. As a new host is obtained, the body can either be male or female.
• "Shape Shifters". Odo, the shape shifting liquid man on Deep Space Nine. His race exist in liquid form in a sea.
• "The Borg". Captured people who are combined with machines and live like sexless worker bees in a hive. Sexual differences are irrelevant.
• "The Binars". Identical twin beings who live in pairs and merge their brain function.
• "The Tribbles". They were bisexual.

Paranormal Television.
The evolution of modern Paranormal Television probably reached a critical point with Shirley MacClaine's television movie about her past lives. At this time, many talk shows regularly showed psychics who were channeling "ascended masters". This new age explosion was promoted by Hollywood personalities and soon these themes found their way into television programming, Soap operas, dramas and infomercials.

From 1966-1971, Dark Shadows introduced a soap opera with occult characters and themes. The style was probably too gloomy for the audience of the sixties, so it was not until Shirley MacClaine that Hollywood really started promoting new age beliefs. Several changes in society guaranteed the acceptance of this new message. Those who had emerged from the sexual revolution of the sixties needed a belief system that would not condemn their behavior. And the promised Utopia of science and the increasing wealth of the nation made God seem more unnecessary.

By the mid 1990's many movie stars were promoting psychic networks and channelers. Dionne Warrick and her Psychic Friends Network, sold solution to lifes problems at $3.99 per minute. Finally, soap operas are using these as a regular part of their stories.

Occult Television After 2003
Network	Show	Format	Creator	Belief Promoted	Theme
NBC	Days of Our Lives	Soap Opera	Ted Corday, James Reilly (Writer)	Occult	Witches
NBC	Passions		James Reilly	Witchcraft	Witches
NBC	Medium	Drama	Glenn Gordon Caron	Occult	Psychic, necromancer
CourtTV	Psychic Detective	Reality	-	Occult	Psychic
NBC	Raines	Drama	Graham Yost	Occult	Talk to the dead, familiar spirit
CBS	As the World Turns	Soap Opera	Irna Phillips	Immorality	Immorality
CBS	Bold and the Beautiful		William Bell, Lee Bell	Immorality	Immorality
CBS	Guiding Light		Irna Phillips	Immorality	Immorality
CBS	Young and the Restless		William Bell, Lee Bell	Immorality	Immorality
CBS	Ghost Whisperer	Drama	John Gray	Occult	Necromancer. James Van Praagh (producer)
ABC	All My Children	Soap Opera	Agnes Nixon	Immorality	Immorality. Catholicism (recent trend)
ABC	General Hospital		Doris and Frank Hursley	Occult	Hypnosis
ABC	One Life to Live		Agnes Nixon	Occult	Out of body. Catholicism (recent trend)
ABC	Port Charles		Carolyn and Richard Culliton	Occult	Witches, psychics, channeling, vampire
ABC	Dark Shadows		Dan Curtis	Occult	Vampires, seance, witches
SciFi	Dresden Files	Drama	Jim Butcher (Author) Nicholas Cage (Producer)	Occult	Whizard, spells, magic, familiar spirit
UPN	Special Unit 2	Drama	John T. Kretchmer	Occult	Missing links, gnomes
UPN	Buffy, the Vampire Slayer	Drama	Joss Whedon	Occult	Vampires. Good and evil unite
WB	Angel	Drama	Joss Whedon	Occult	Vampires. Good and evil unite
WB	Charmed	Drama	Constance Burge	Witchcraft	Witches. Good and evil unite. Angels sin.
WB	Supernatural	Drama	Eric Kripke	Occult	Talk to the dead
-	The Crow: Stairway to Heaven	Drama	Creator	Occult	Life after death, talking to the dead
Disney	So Weird	Drama	Tom Astle	Occult	Psychics, magic, voodoo, talking to the dead
CTV	Mysterious Ways	Drama	Peter O'Fallon	Occult	Supernatural, occult, Catholic, Channeling, ghosts, paranormal investigator
FOX	Dark Angel	Drama	Charles Eglee, James Cameron	Occult	Vampires
FOX	X-Files	Drama	Chris Carter	Catholicism	Aliens
FOX	The Shaman King	Cartoon	Hiroyuki Takei	Occult	Characters control the spirits of the dead that possess them. They hope to gain possession of the Great Spirit.
FOX	Crossing Over with John Edward	Talk Show	John Edward	Occult	Talking to the dead. 7½ hour Work shop on becoming a medium $495
WB	Beyond	Talk Show	James Van Praagh	Occult	Talks to the dead. Gives psychic readings to celebrities. 3 hour seminars: $75-$85
-	Psychic Friends Network	Talk show Infomercial		Occult	Astrology, channeling
The occult is now creeping into prime time dramas. But there were generally certain types of shows that used to promote the occult: Soap operas which are also notable for their promotion of immorality. A church is only visible whenever they want to model the latest bridal gown or bless a baby that is usually of dubious parentage. Now, older soap operas and the newer shows are immersed in the occult. As the stars promote their shows they also promote witchcraft and other paranormal communications. Psychic talk shows are a new breed of shows. There is even a psychic for pets on one channel. In the beginning, regular talk shows would feature celebrities and their psychics channeling advanced spirits. Psychic infomercials were the first to regularly use stars to promote psychic guidance to the public. Many similar shows followed the Dionne Warwick and her Psychic Friends. They were generally hosted or endorsed by celebrities who came on to support their own private psychics. Children's programming. Cartoons regularly promoted occult and pagan religions in the seventies. Because the magical is so imaginative, many ordinary shows regularly deal with this topic.

Jewish Television.
Although this web page was started because I noticed a trend towards Catholicism and government propaganda, it quickly became apparent that I could not ignore the issue of Jews in the media. Or more specifically, that Jews control the media. It may have been a claim that was started or propagated by Adolph Hitler in his attempt to blame the Jews for the economic condition of Germany and their defeat in World War 1.

Fortunately, I had done a lot of research in history. I found that the Jews were badly mistreated and that the business that they entered into were the ones the Christian nations thrust upon them. During the Spanish Inquisition, the pope allowed them to only sell used clothing. Hitler herded them into unwanted occupations also. During World War 2, America was very anti-Semitic.

The St. Louis, a ship with 963 Jews left Germany on May 13, 1939 seeking asylum. It was turned back by both Cuba and the United States. About half were murdered by the Nazis. Most stories about the mass murders in Germany were not reported or buried inside the news paper. Even by the Jewish leader of a New York newspaper. Therefore, it is impossible for them to have the kind of influence that is ascribed to them only twenty years later. Ask any African American about the speed of real opportunity.

Other sites attempt to show the Jewish control of the media. They conveniently leave out those companies that have more influence where they cannot find a Jew in a management position. They also fail to mention that as CEO's and managers this influence is temporary at best and subject to the whim of the stockholders or private owners. They make a claim that white Gentiles would never have corrupted the civilization. They are incapable of such immoral actions. They make no allowance for the dynamics in a public company and the greed of stockholders, the sinful nature of Gentiles and the responsibility of the management team.

When it comes to religion, the Jews did not proselytize Judaism through their television characters. If they have participated in the perceived spread of African and homosexual issues, I can only attribute it to their experience as a persecuted minority and the unwillingness to participate in an injustice to other minorities.

I doubt that Jews everywhere gather over bagels with a plot to destroy the moral fabric of society while profiting from it. There is too much anti-Semitism everywhere for them to acquire and use that much power.

So, my observation is that any so-called control did not result in indoctrination of the public into Judaism as a religion. In the few Jewish characters that I can recall, it has been about Jews as a people, not Judaism as a religion.

Protestant Television.
Although Christianity is represented, Protestantism is not. Shows such as Highway to Heaven, Touched by an Angel, Seventh Heaven and Little House on the Prairie are the major dramas that claim to be Christian.

The show "Touched by An Angel" was written and carefully controlled by a Protestant. But after watching many episodes, I am hard pressed to isolate any particular Christian denomination. I assume that it is not Catholic only because of the lack of images and characters making the sign of the cross. The writer managed to skillfully handle many controversial topics without approving of them.

I have only watched Seventh Heaven about four times to try to evaluate it for this article. Each time I tried to discover their religious beliefs but I could not. For a show about a minister and his family, I am puzzled as to why I have not seen a bible, a church or something even remotely related to a Christian ministry.

So, Protestantism on television has emerged to be this nebulous Christianity which is full of moral and social commentary, some family values but is devoid of any religious instruction. For Christian shows it is odd that most never mention Jesus Christ.

Catholic Television.
Since about 1991, current television has become a forum for Catholicism. It is notable for the glaring absence of Protestantism amidst a sea of Catholics trying to reconcile with the church.
No cast of characters adequately demonstrate this more than the original Law & Order series. Dick Wolf, the creator, is a Catholic. He has created a series of characters that represent the broad spectrum of Catholics that the church is trying to reach. The faithful, the lapsed, the angry and the intellectual with questions.

• The Faithful. Detective Rey Curtis and Phil Cerreta on Law & Order. Detective Elliot Stabler on SVU. The croatian doctor on ER represents the church's position on abortion and chastity before marriage. The Hack family. Detective Woody of Crossing Jordan. Detective Temple Page of the District. The January 4, 2003 episode of the District was called "Faith". It dealt with the pedophile issues. It is notable for the expression of faith in an interview of each character. In it, the result was not a chastisement of the church. It turned the focus on Christ, the reason for our faith. It side-stepped the issue of the cover up.
• The Lapsed. Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh of Crossing Jordan, her father. The District's Kevin Debreno whose brother is a priest. He sought out his church at the death of Ella. Joe Friday of L.A. Dragnet. Mr. Parker from Seven Days.
  After watching the hospital drama "House", I was surprised to see that when they finally introduced religion on the June 21, 2004 episode, there was one Jew, and everyone else appeared to be an atheist. But Dr. Chase returned to the Catholic religion of his childhood again.
• The Questioner. The D.A. Ben Stone, Detective Lennie Briscoe the half Jew and half Catholic. The father of Joan of Arcadia.
• The Seeker. The mother of Joan of Arcadia.
• The Angry. Detective Mike Logan
• Border Line. Programs such as "Seven Days" and "The Pretender". Although Jarrod grew up isolated from society and religion, he regularly turns to the Catholic church for assistance.

By 2003, almost all shows have added Catholicism to their formula. It has even started showing up regularly in several comedies and soap operas. Substantial portions of dialogue focus on the merits of the doctrines of the Catholic church. In almost all the shows, one of the major characters is a Catholic. The other character is devoid of any religion. How will this bias skew the public in ten or twenty years? This same tactic of having the audience empathize with and identify with the star of the show has been proven to be a very effective method of changing our culture. The framers of our future morality have deemed Catholicism only as the religion of the future. This trend is prophetic.
The fact that this is being accomplished through an unholy union between the church and the forces of the occult and the immoral is also prophetic.

During the intense period of the pedophile scandals, every show that I watched that dealt with the issue seemed to express that same Vatican statements that were being repeated on the nightly news. It is not an endemic problem, only 1.8 % of the priests are guilty. None of them adequately dealt substantially with the cover-up or a fair legal remedy. But everyone quoted the statistics that were issued to the nightly news.

Catholic characters eventually have an episode where they agree with the church. In every controversial issue, the Church has emerged triumphant. Even in the case of pedophilia, a victim expressed his wish to forgive the priest. I believed that it was not so much an endorsement of Christian forgiveness as it was an endorsement of the priesthood.

Update. The May 11, 2005 episode of Law and Order mentioned Jesus so many times I thought that I was at a church convention. Since I wrote all the above, many other shows are regularly featuring religious segments and issues. I have even heard my local early morning news tell me when and where mass will be celebrated that morning. Dateline seems to regularly do religious segments. CNN now has a "Faces of Religion" segment on Sunday. In one year religion suddenly became popular and normal.

Movies. Critics were surprised at the popularity of "The Passion" in 2004.

Broadway Shows. On June 5, 2005 the play called "Doubt" won the Tony awards for best show. It is about a Catholic priest accused by a nun of being a pedophile. Interestingly, the show does not end with a resolution of his guilt or innocence, but in between the church got its message out. The propaganda machine of this church is everywhere,

Catholic Television in 2003 and 2005
Network	Show	Producer	Creator	Religion	Religious Theme
WB	Charmed	Spelling Television	Constance M. Burge	Witchcraft, Catholic	Go to Catholic church
WB	Everwood	Everwood Utah, Inc.	Greg Berlanti	Catholic	Catholic family
WB	Gilmore Girls **	Drank Here Productions	Amy Sherman-Palladino	Unknown	Catholic school?
WB	Seventh Heaven	Aaron Spelling	Brenda Hampton	Protestant	Minister and family
NBC	Law and Order	Wolf Films	Dick Wolf	Catholic	Catholic characters. Many
NBC	Law and Order: SVU	Wolf Films	Dick Wolf	Catholic	Catholic: Elliott
NBC	Law and Order: CI	Wolf Films	Dick Wolf	Catholic	Catholic: Gorn
NBC	ER	Constant c Productions and Amblin Television	Michael Crichton	Catholic	Catholic doctor, abortion
NBC	Crossing Jordan	Tailwind Productions	Tim Kring	Catholic	Catholic: Jordan, father, Woody
NBC	West Wing	Aaron Sorkin, John Wells	Aaron Sorkin	Catholic	Catholic president
NBC	American Dreams **	Mark Grossan, Dick Clark, Jonathan Prince	Jonathan Prince	Catholic	Catholic family, school, culture
NBC	Third Watch	John Wells	John Wells	Catholic	Even non-Catholics visit priests
NBC	Miracles	Roger Birnbaum	Richard Hatem	Catholic	Catholic apocalyptic theology
NBC	Revelations	David Seltzer	David Seltzer	Catholic	Catholic nun, apocalypse
CBS	The District	Studios USA Television	Terry George, Jack Maple	Catholic	Catholic characters, possibly one Baptist
CBS	Hack