I am hoping this is not a dupe. I did look!! This is just an amazing story. More victimization from religious types! These people are getting way too pushy. Notice the title, then look at the stats they provide!
Dec 17, 9:01 AM (ET)
By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) - Television entertainment programs mention God more often than they did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organized religion negatively, a study released Thursday said.
The Parents Television Council watched every hour of prime-time on the broadcast networks during the 2003-04 season and logged 2,344 treatments of religion. They judged 22 percent of the mentions positive, 24 percent negative and the rest neutral.
The conservative group's last study, released in 1997, found far fewer mentions of the topic - an average of once per hour compared to three times per hour last season.
But any mention of a religious institution or member of the clergy was at least twice as likely to be negative than positive, the council said. The rest of the story
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