http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:09:20 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/03/18/082520.php#comment-723518 Of course, I'm reasonably certain that the previous comment is *not* posted by Ted Baehr, for what are probably obvious reasons. I actually don't question the real Ted Baehr's sincerity; I just suspect that he is blind to his own inconsistency. 723518@blogcritics.org Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:09:20 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/03/18/082520.php#comment-723387 I was turned on to this article by a colleague, and am pleased I can post a response. It bears mentioning that MOVIEGUIDE is a business, at its heart. Certainly we strive to enlighten and inform parents about making wise an discerning choices for their children's viewing habits, and adults' choices as well. But at the end of the day it is all about the bottom line, and in this case it is revenues generated by donations, and by financial incentives provided by production houses. You will notice that everything, articles and reviews both, that appears on www.movieguide.org solicits for donations. This is an integral part of our income. More so is the money paid to the Kairos Marketing Group, a sister company of MOVIEGUIDE and the Christian Film & Television Commission. Production houses submits a monetary fee to Kairos, which in turn rolls the money over to me at movieguide.org, and I then lean the subsequent review of that producer's movie to be much more favourable in terms of rating for Content and Acceptability. Therefore, in the case of a Christian-friendly movie such as THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, we will bend out reviewing standards to extoll the wholesome Biblical worldview while largely ignoring the "torture porn" aspect of that film. By the same token we will take a clean and interesting film like THE DA VINCI CODE and attack it endlessly, because it posits subject material antithetical to our Christian ethos. It is a money game we play here, gentlemen. MOVIEGUIDE must play to its conservative Christian base, and to do so we must re-interpret our own rules in order to keep up the bottom line. Yours in Christ, Dr. Ted Baehr Founder, Christian Film & Television Commission 723387@blogcritics.org Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:24:22 EDT