Tuning out media 'Noise'; Illinois abortions: 10-year high!
By Matt C. Abbott
The following are the Preface and the Introduction (minus the endnotes) to Catholic journalist Teresa Tomeo's book Noise, published in 2007. Thanks to Matthew Pinto and Mike Flickinger of Ascension Press for allowing me to reprint this still-timely material.
Two years ago, through my ministry as a speaker on media issues and through prayer, I came to see that concerned Catholics needed a book that would be a one-stop resource for media activism and awareness, a book which drew upon the Church's teachings regarding the media and on the importance of engaging the culture. This book became Noise. I went forward believing in the truths the Lord had set on my heart and in what I knew to be true from my extensive research and experience as a media insider. Since the book's publication in February 2007, the problems of media influence I detailed in the first edition of Noise have only increased, and it has become ever clearer that the teachings of the Catholic Church, as in every other area of our lives, offer a way out of the chaos.Continue reading here: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100104
