As News Over The Last Few Weeks
has ricocheted from sickening photos out of the United States-run Abu Ghraib prison, to the revenge-video of the Nick Berg execution, to other abhorrent scenes, a war-weary global public is left reeling.
Whatever
anyone thinks about the film The Passion of the Christ, it has catapulted the story of all stories, about the King of all kings, to the front of our attention.
This history of
American television reads a little like the Bible's book of Leviticus: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet begat My Three Sons, My Three Sons begat.
Those words
from a classic 1958 Patsy Cline recording sound pretty contemporary in today's world of instant messaging, 24-hour news channels, mail that arrives over-night from across a continent, and families with two working parents.
