Jennifer A. Gritt

In the following viewpoint, Jennifer A. Gritt contends that the mainstream media and entertainment industry are undermining America’s founding principles of individualism and religious faith. Hollywood producers and directors are consciously working to subvert the nation’s traditional values by making movies containing profanity, violence, drug use, explicit sex, and anti-Christian messages, Gritt maintains. By producing such mindless and crude entertainment, Hollywood and other promoters of popular culture hope to manipulate the population—especially youth—into accepting amoral and socialist solutions to America’s problems. Gritt is an editorial assistant for the New American, a conservative biweekly journal.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Gritt, what is the truth about the artists who were blacklisted from working in Hollywood during the 1940s and...