The cable news catechism has done its job
Updated Jun 24; Posted Jun 24
By Dana Hall McCain
When I was a child, there was significant talk about the dangers that came into our home via the television. Especially after we added the scandalous thirteen channels of our first cable package. We worried about foul language and scantily-clad people doing vulgar things.
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We worried about the casual portrayal of attitudes and choices that were in direct conflict with biblical teaching. My parents' concerns and restrictions were in line with those of countless Christian families fighting to preserve a distinctly Christian worldview for their children in an increasingly pluralistic society.
But we missed a major Trojan Horse. Americans of all stripes threw the doors open wide and invited cable news to come in and set up shop for hours every day. To interpret the world for us in an intense, repetitive fashion, hour after hour.
Do you know what rogue governments do to indoctrinate people to a set of core beliefs? They repeat those beliefs on a loop, over and over, until even those which you might have initially resisted based on personal or religious principles start to sound more reasonable. More familiar. Downright true.
All it takes is repeated exposure to the same talking points. Over time, most of us will come around.
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more: https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/06/our_cable_news_catechism.html
A religiously-based POV, but thoughtful *almost* to the end.
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I found a good column by the other spousal unit not far below it. 
"A startling number of mainline Christians are okay with unrestricted abortion, despite clear biblical support for the sanctity of human life."
Trying to uphold 'the first trimester' and 'life of mother, rape and incest' is hardly "unrestricted." 
What cable news is SHE watching? Must be that 'fair and balanced' one.
