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Despite all the smiling faces and the daily pretense of good intentions ABC has not been a good little network this year, Misinformer of the Year: ABC

This year saw ABC air The Path to 9/11, a two-part miniseries that placed the blame for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Clinton administration and whitewashed some of the Bush administration’s failures leading up to the attacks. Additionally, the network’s news coverage frequently reported Republican spin as fact, passed on falsehoods propagated by conservatives, and missed numerous opportunities to challenge or question the administration’s actions during solo interviews with Bush and key members of his administration.

[ ]… * Vargas reported that “Congress voted to raise the national debt limit to nearly $9 trillion” but omitted the fact that all Senate Democrats voted against the increase, along with three Republicans. [3/16/06]

More at the link. Some of it lies by ABC, but most frequently distortions and spin.

Religion does more harm than good - poll

More people in Britain think religion causes harm than believe it does good, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that an overwhelming majority see religion as a cause of division and tension - greatly outnumbering the smaller majority who also believe that it can be a force for good.

The Right Rev Bishop Dunn makes the observation that frequently religion is used in a derisive way, as a front for agendas. That probably has a lot to do with this trend. In America I think we’re seeing just the beginning of a backlash against not God per se, but religious extremists that have used Jesus as a kind of rhetorical weapon to beat people with both figuratively and literally. The Falwells, Dobsons, and Robertson of the world may have lived long enough to see their hateful intolerant dogma come back to haunt them.