NEW YORK, DEC. 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Television entertainment programs mention God more often than they did in the mid-1990s but tend to depict organized religion negatively, says a new study.
The Parents Television Council watched every hour of prime time on the broadcast networks during the 2003-04 season and counted 2,344 treatments of religion, the Associated Press reported.
The council judged 22% of the mentions positive, 24% negative and the rest neutral.
References to religion were three times more frequent than found in the group's last study, released in 1997.
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TV Tends to Slam Religion, Contends Study
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