Christianity And the Mass Media in America

Now available in paperback! The mass media and religious groups in America regularly argueabout news bias, sex and violence on television, movie censorship,advertiser boycotts, broadcast and film content rating systems, governmentregulation of the media, the role of mass evangelism in ademocracy, and many other issues. In the United States the majordisputes between religion and the media usually have involvedChristian churches or parachurch ministries, on the one hand, andso-called secular media, on the other. Often the Christian Rightlocks horns with supposedly liberal Eastern media elite andHollywood entertainment companies. When a major Protestantdenomination calls for an economic boycott of Disney, the resultingnews reports suggest business as usual in the tensions betweenfaith groups and media empires.