Share | CommonDreams.org

From this page you can share Falwell and Me to a social bookmarking site or email a link to the page.

Social Web	E-mail
Twitter StumbleUpon Facebook Delicious Digg Newsvine Google Yahoo Technorati	Your Email: * Your Name: * Send To: * Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas. You are going to email the following: Falwell and Me Message Subject: (Your Name) has forwarded an article to you from CommonDreams.org: Falwell and Me Message Body: (Your Name) forwarded this article to you from CommonDreams.org. Sign up here if you would like to receive daily news from CommonDreams.org. Your Personal Message: *
Falwell and Me It was fitting to see so much gushing on TV news about Rev. Jerry Falwell in the hours after his death. He and TV news held the same things sacred: fame, soundbites and uninformed fear-mongering. At the beginning of his rise 25 years ago, it was mainstream media complicity and gullibility that helped build Falwell's Moral Majority and the myth of its clout. As documented in Tina Rosenberg's 1982 Washington Monthly piece, "How the Media Made the Moral Majority," Team Falwell repeatedly violated the Ninth Commandment by misleading journalists about their numbers and power.

Social Web

E-mail

Twitter
StumbleUpon
Facebook
Delicious
Digg
Newsvine
Google
Yahoo
Technorati

Falwell and Me

It was fitting to see so much gushing on TV news about Rev. Jerry Falwell in the hours after his death. He and TV news held the same things sacred: fame, soundbites and uninformed fear-mongering.

At the beginning of his rise 25 years ago, it was mainstream media complicity and gullibility that helped build Falwell's Moral Majority and the myth of its clout. As documented in Tina Rosenberg's 1982 Washington Monthly piece, "How the Media Made the Moral Majority," Team Falwell repeatedly violated the Ninth Commandment by misleading journalists about their numbers and power.