Friday, September 19, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the real ‘succession’ story of Rupert Murdoch and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, and he answers questions about violent video games, conservatives critique of the ‘T’ in LGBTQ but not the rest of its ideology, and parents who suspect their son is dating a transgender woman.
Part I (00:15 – 10:01)
The Real ‘Succession’ Story: Rupert Murdoch Buys Out Three of His Children to Ensure the Continuation of His Conservative Media Empire
Part II (10:01 – 10:58)
More Media News: ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Show in After Charlie Kirk Comments
Part III (10:58 – 16:32)
Do Video Games Play a Role in the Violence of Young Men? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (16:32 – 20:49)
- Polymorphous perversity in the heartland: The scandal of the Kinsey Institute and Indiana University by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 19, 2025. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Mowler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | The influence of the media is something we always have to watch, and big shifts in terms of the media landscape should have our attention. |
| 0:21.6 | The worldview of so many people around us is so immediately shaped by the consumption of media and |
| 0:26.9 | the influence of media. It used to be, you'll remember, that control over the media was very |
| 0:31.5 | tight. You're talking about three legacy television networks. They controlled the news that most |
| 0:37.0 | Americans saw. And by that time, |
| 0:39.7 | television had replaced radio. You had CBS, NBC, ABC, and outside those letters, you basically |
| 0:46.3 | did not have access to the media. That's when mainstream media really became the entirety |
| 0:53.0 | of the media landscape. You still had the influence of some leading |
| 0:56.1 | newspapers. That continued into the 21st century, but television became absolutely dominant. And the |
| 1:02.1 | fact is, you had those three networks. Was there competition among the three? Yes, there was competition, |
| 1:07.6 | but not very much conflict, not very much diversity when it came to worldview. |
| 1:12.7 | There were times in which it was thought NBC is more liberal than CBS. |
| 1:16.2 | And other times, especially by the time you get towards the end of the 20th century, |
| 1:20.3 | CBS appeared more liberal than NBC. |
| 1:23.3 | It's just a matter of debate. |
| 1:25.3 | But the point is, the control was was so tight it was at least center |
| 1:30.1 | left, if not further left, when it came to the media class and that kind of control. |
| 1:35.8 | Conservatives really didn't have much of a chance. They didn't have much of a voice. |
| 1:38.6 | All that began to change in the age of cable. And there were some who saw in the development |
| 1:43.9 | of cable a media opportunity. The top of that |
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