In many ways, it seems our serious news outlets are now following television's lead. The cable TV network explosion created an incredibly splintered television market throughout the '90's. Amid this brutal competition, high mindedness became an afterthought.

The question became how to grasp the attention of an increasingly fractured audience. The answer came from media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who used his Fox television station to belch out one enormous orgy of tawdry and titillating television morsels. His populist model proved wildly successful. Soon others followed suit until gross self-parody and dark humor became the dominant currency for depicting popular culture on TV. Thus was television's anti-family agenda born - not out of a moral lapse as much as out of perceived economic necessity.

That this anti-family message is now slowly permeating even our so-called reasoned, hard-news outlets is not only morally reprehensible and culturally destructive, it is, artistically speaking, quite boring.

A religion text used in numerous Catholic high schools promotes an anti-family, feminist agenda.

Loving -- A Catholic Perspective on Vocational Lifestyle Choices, by Michele McCarty (Wm C Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa) glorifies the "single life," justifies homosexuality, encourages childlessness, redefines the family and undermines parental authority.

The American Psychological Association has increasingly radicalized itself with the recent publication of research studies which--at least indirectly--offer support for the perspectives of pedophilia normalization advocates, as well as radical feminists.