WHY DON'T WE JUST AGREE WITH Michael Medved and have done with it? In his new book, Hollywood vs. America (HarperCollins, $20), Medved, a critic on the PBS show Sneak Previews, denounces today's movie industry -- and by extension the TV networks and music business -- as "an alien force that assaults our most cherished values and corrupts our children. The dream factory has become the poison factory."
Medved has tapped into a general queasiness about pop culture, and not just from religious and social conservatives. A large segment of the public senses that the trash has risen to eye and...