[In referece to a new Parents Television Council "study" complaining of negative TV portrayals of Christians], Frank Wright, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, called the negative portrayals "dehumanizing" and compared them to representations of Jews prior to the Holocaust, and blacks in the era of slavery. "Systematic negative portrayals of groups of people are always disturbing," he said.
"They produce the potting soil that leads to persecution."
[The PTC are the fools who lodged the vast majority of FCC complaints last year, and who apparently even find 9.3% of the religious references on the PAX network offensive.]
[PTC president L. Brent] Bozell, a Catholic, said, "Is it because Hollywood is Jewish and taking care of its own? No, I don't think that. In the popular culture of America, 99% of the public, and also in Hollywood, there is an understanding that respect is owed to Jews. It's as simple as that. That same respect ought to be paid to other faiths as well."
Update: Frank Rich puts this all in perspective.
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