Analysis and Commentary on the Media's Rivalry With Religion


	In the Islamic world, criticizing fundamentalists as "extremist" for wanting to order society along religious lines misses the point.
	The inability of culture to keep up with change is behind many contemporary problems.
	Media culture brings great uniformity to behavior, but without any socially-enabling coherence.
	The resurgence of religious fundamentalism of all kinds appears to reflect a longing for the coherence of time-proven culture.

The media and traditional religions are in a largely unacknowledged, yet fundamental, conflict over the form and nature of culture.