Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 12, 2005
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Dave Brown, author of “Entertaining Ourselves in church” speaks about “Neil Postman, a professor of communications arts and sciences at New York University wrote a fascinating book called, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
He says, “Postman doesn’t write as a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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Between ’88 and ’97, Hollywood produced 17 times more R-rated films than G-rated, but the G-rated films generated 8 times more gross earnings and a 78% greater rate of Return on Investment, according to the Dove foundation. The average G-rated film earned $94 million in gross revenues compared to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Mixed Messages: A recent Harvard School of Public Health study confirmed what entertainment consumers already suspected: “ratings creep” in the last decade has allowed more profanity, violence and sexual content in the same movie ratings categories. At the same time the FTC imposed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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MTV is watched by 73% of boys and 78% of girls ages 12 to 19. The network averages 13 sexual scenes per hour. (Foster
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