Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center took a look at the recent “Teen Choice Awards” program featured on Fox. The winners were chosen by teenagers via a poll organized by Teen People magazine. Bozell reports: “In between the incessant screaming of 13-year-old girls for every winner, presenter and commercial break came the award winners, and if this isn’t enough to send shivers down the spine of any parent, nothing will.”
The teenagers voted in droves for artists who drag the bottom of the moral landscape. Bozell treats parents to a list of the abysmally crude and sexually-explicit lyrics and messages featured by these “artists.” Not much can be reported here.
Here’s how Bozell summed up the event and its meaning: This is child pornography in reverse. Rather than raunchy imagery of innocent children being peddled to seedy adults, it is moral depravity being marketed to children by adults. Once upon a time, Hollywood had the common decency to build safe harbors around impressionable children. Today, the ground rules are reversed, and now it is that very sweet innocence that they are out to destroy.
What the ‘Teen Choice’ Awards Reveal
August 23, 2005
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Words From the Fire: Hearing the Voice of God in the 10 Commandments
If God has spoken, then the highest human aspiration must be to hear what the Creator has said. God has indeed spoken, through the Ten Commandments, and Al Mohler explores this revelation of God and the implications for His people. The promise is to hear, to obey, and to live. These “Ten Words” tell us who God is and what His people should look like.
Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., serves as president of 
