Saturday, August 16, 2008

Info-Tainment Meets Inspir-Mation

Tonight’s show was predictable and a bit creepy.

Fox, CNN and most other news stations carried the dialogue as Reverend Rick Warren quizzed senators McCain and Obama on national TV. Warren wanted to know how Christianity played out in their personal lives. He wanted to make sure neither believed in gay marriage. He pushed them on abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Pastor Rick wanted to know how they would address religious persecution around the world. And he invited them to confess their biggest moral blunder in front of the cameras.

The mega-church pastor didn’t talk much about the poor, except to boast that he personally had sold 25 million copies of his guide to living a more purposeful life, and to quip that an annual income of $150,000 a year, which Obama defined as middle-class, was a poverty wage in his southern California neighborhood. Funny, I remember Jesus had a lot to say about the poor and not so much about stem cell research. Me and Rick must have gone to different seminaries.

One of his last questions to both candidates: “What would you say to folks who think it’s inappropriate for you to be talking with me here tonight?” Rev. Warren said that while it was important to keep church and state distinct, there was nothing wrong with mingling faith and politics. “Faith” was just another name for a world view, he explained, and everyone had one of those, whether Baptist or Buddhist or Bahai. Both Obama and McCain enthused about how delighted they were chatting with such a prominent religious leader.

But I had a different reaction. I thought it was another example of America’s growing problem with boundary issues. Specifically, our nation seems to be losing sight of the appropriate lines between news and entertainment, between entertainment and religion, and between religion and politics.

Tonight’s show tried to somehow be all of those things, set in a church that looked like a TV studio on steroids. Info-tainment meets Inspir-mation.

Not a pretty sight.

20 comments:

agathiyan said...






I also agree with you ..... very useful information for us ...... keep it up thanks for this..........






Function Point Estimation Training

Unknown said...

Really awesome blog. Software testing is a method of executing the application or program with the intent of searching the software errors. Software Testing Training in Chennai offering this course at reasonable cost.

Unknown said...

I get a lot of great information from this blog. Thank you for your sharing this informative blog. Just now I have completed hadoop certification course at a leading academy. If you are interested to learn Big Data Hadoop Training in Chennai visit FITA IT training and placement academy.

Boss Tents said...

Truly amazing blog. Thank you for sharing your positive feedback with us!

Tents Tents South Africa Tents for sale Tents Manufacturers Tents South Africa Alpine Tents Aluminium Tents Alpine Marquee Plastic Chair

Unknown said...

Thanks for sharing informative blog. Your information related to selenium is really useful for me. I have completed Selenium Training in Chennai at Besant technology. They give job oriented training for all trainees. To know more details please visit our website. Selenium Training in Chennai.

Bay Max said...

Latest technology have created a greater impact over testing web applications. This vital in identifying important issues that raises in web appplications. Thanks for sharing this information in here. Keep blogging article like this.

Selenium training in chennai | Selenium training | Selenium testing training in chennai

Valves and Flanges Exporter said...

Great post


Valves and Flanges | Flanges Manufacturer | Flanges Exporter | Falcon Engineers

Unknown said...

Business Name and also Logo design Making use of Photoshop. A number of Entertaining and also Cool Graphics Design functions by Web-site designers with this design services

Unknown said...

Nice information.People willing to get the indepth knowledge in getting framework such as TestNG,jenkins,Maven and POM should get properly get selenium training in chennai|best selenium training in chennai.
People looking for java based training can hit Android training in chennai|Java training in chennai

Management training can grab Primavera training in chennai

Unknown said...

Brilliant ideas that you have share with us.It is really help me lot and i hope it will help others also.update more different ideas with us.
German Training in Ashok Nagar
German Training in Perambur
german learning classes in bangalore
german coaching classes in bangalore

sathyaramesh said...

Its a wonderful post and very helpful, thanks for all this information. You are including better information regarding this topic in an effective way. T hank you so much.
Selenium testing training in chennai
Selenium course
Software testing selenium training
Software Testing Training Institutes in Chennai
software testing course
testing courses in chennai

Unknown said...

Amazing information,thank you for your ideas.after along time i have studied
an interesting information's.we need more updates in your blog.
vmware training institutes in bangalore
best vmware training in bangalore
vmware Training in Nolambur
vmware Training in Saidapet

Vignesh said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Vijiaajith said...

Intresting
interview-questions/aptitude/permutation-and-combination/how-many-groups-of-6-

persons-can-be-formed


tutorials/oracle/oracle-delete

technology/chrome-flags-complete-guide-enhance-browsing-experience/

interview-questions/aptitude/time-and-work/a-alone-can-do-1-4-of-the-work-in-2-days


interview-questions/programming/recursion-and-iteration/integer-a-40-b-35-c-20-d-10

-comment-about-the-output-of-the-following-two-statements


tutorials/apache-pig/apache-pig-subtract-function

tutorials/oracle/oracle-delete


errors-and-fixes/csharp/xml-serializer-there-was-an-error-reflecting-type


interview-questions/aptitude/simple-interest/if-the-simple-interest-on-a-certain-sum-

of-money


interview-questions/aptitude/compound-interest/rs-5887-is-divided-between-shyam-

and-ram


letters/tag/specimen-presentation-of-letters-issued-by-company/

Vijiaajith said...

a alone can do 14 of the work in 2 days

Rs 5887 is divided between shyam and ram

If the simple interest on a certain sum...

xml

serializer...


Apache pig subtract

function...



Integer a 40 b 35 c 20 d 10...

How many groups of 6 persons...

Chrome flags

complete guide...


Oracle delete..


specimen

presentation of letters..

nash b said...

NICE....
t system placement paper

advantages of package in java

2xwy cable full form

react native developer resume sample

log(a2/bc) + log(b2/ac(c2/ab) is

error: cannot find module '../lib/utils/unsupported.js'

django.core.exceptions.improperlyconfigured: error loading mysqldb module.

infix to postfix python

what is your biggest achievement yahoo answers

toughest pattern programs in c

SAP Training said...

Manual Testing Training in Chennai
QTP Training in Chennai
Software Testing Training in Chennai
LoadRunner Training in Chennai
Mobile Application Testing Training in Chennai
QC Training in Chennai
Test Complete Training in Chennai
JMeter Training in Chennai
SAP Training in Chennai
SoapUI Training in Chennai

merlin said...

It is Very nice and Informative website.Excellent Work


Selenium Training in chennai | Selenium Training in annanagar | Selenium Training in omr | Selenium Training in porur | Selenium Training in tambaram | Selenium Training in velachery


Jayalakshmi said...

What a really awesome post this is. Truly, one of the best posts I've ever witnessed to see in my whole life. Wow, just keep it up.
hardware and networking training in chennai

hardware and networking training in tambaram

xamarin training in chennai

xamarin training in tambaram

ios training in chennai

ios training in tambaram

iot training in chennai

iot training in tambaram

deiva said...

Really nice post. Unix is a multiuser and multi tasking operating system at the same time.
java training in chennai

java training in omr

aws training in chennai

aws training in omr

python training in chennai

python training in omr

selenium training in chennai

selenium training in omr

Blog Archive

Followers