Daily Gut: The Military, the Media, and the Martini

Now imagine you were somebody who only got your news from USA Today. What a weird worldview you’d have.

For one, you’d think colorful pie charts solve every problem, and you’d also think our military consists of nothing but troubled head cases. In the past year or so, USA Today has done little more than paint our military as rife with suicide, mental health problems, divorce, troubled kids and of course – alcohol and drug abuse.

Let’s look at the most recent USA Today piece on alcohol abuse. The paper reported that “Soldiers…with alcoholism or alcohol abuse, such as binge drinking, increased from 6.1 per 1,000 soldiers in 2003 to an estimated 11.4 as of March 31.”

That is disturbing, no doubt – and it’s all from military data. But what happens if you compare that figure to our general population? Well, according to the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 15.5 percent of the general population report episodes of binge drinking in 2006 – and for males alone – the number jumps over 20 percent. (more…)

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Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 6:40 am in Daily Gut, Media Criticism, Military, News | 171282One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/26/daily-gut-the-military-the-media-and-the-martini/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Military%2C+the+Media%2C+and+the+Martini2009-06-26+13%3A40%3A56Greg+Gutfeld

Movies With No Sex, Foul Language and Nudity Win At Box Office

Once again, Movieguide® Magazine’s Annual Report to the Entertainment Industry shows that moviegoers prefer movies with no explicit sex, nudity and foul language. This was especially clear in 2008. Movies with no foul language, sex and nudity averaged significantly more money at the theatrical box office in America and Canada than movies with some or a lot of such vulgarity, sex or nudity.

Movieguide®’s analysis of the top movies released in 2008 also showed that moviegoers rejected movies with extreme forms of substance abuse. Movieguide® also measured miscellaneous amounts of immorality, such as lying, stealing, blackmail, extortion, greed, envy, jealousy. Movies with no miscellaneous immorality made nearly six times more money than movies with extensive or extreme amounts of miscellaneous immorality. (more…)

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Posted Mar 28th 2009 at 4:33 pm in Entertainment, News | 905782 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/drbaehr/2009/03/28/filth-depravity-don%e2%80%99t-sell/Movies+With+No+Sex%2C+Foul+Language+and+Nudity+Win+At+Box+Office2009-03-28+23%3A33%3A50Ted+Baehr