Cornell University kicks Fox News off campus after questions about 'liberal bias'
Source: Syracuse.com
A Central New York college is under fire for kicking Fox News Channel off campus after questions about the school's alleged "liberal bias."
Bill O'Reilly spoke Monday night about a recent Cornell Sun newspaper report that claimed 96 percent of the more than $600,000 in political donations from Cornell University faculty went to Democratic candidates. Only 15 of 323 donors gave money to "conservative" politicians, the Fox News host said.
O'Reilly complained that it didn't seem diverse enough, so he sent "O'Reilly Factor" producer and reporter Jesse Watters to ask professors and students if they thought there was a liberal "indoctrination" on campus.
Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/cornell_university_fox_news_liberal_bias_oreilly_watters.html
jimlup
(7,968 posts)that the professors are right. Sorry FOX, Reality has a "liberal" bais.
denverbill
(11,489 posts)DFW
(54,341 posts)No bias at all, neither liberal nor conservative. This university encourages open, creative thinking, and tries to teach all to think critically and think for themselves. If that leads our community to support Democratic candidates to the tune of 96%, what does that say to you about the political leanings of people who are taught to think freely and critically, and come to their own conclusions about the ways of the world?
Duval
(4,280 posts)Ex Lurker
(3,813 posts)and will confirm Fox's narrative of academic bias. If they weren't being disruptive, they should have been allowed to stay.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,886 posts)False equivalence fails the test of logic, again!
houston16revival
(953 posts)be investigated for its own "conservative bias" in their reporting.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
japple
(9,821 posts)start, but they will have to get about 100 stories under their belt to convince me that their reporters are anything more than pimps.
erronis
(15,241 posts)FOX Pimps. There are ruder terms but this one fits very nicely and I hope it goes into their wikipedia history for all future historians, and their grandchildren, to see.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)dsc
(52,155 posts)They kicked him off because he was acting like a perv.
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/27/bill_oreillys_lapdog_jesse_watters_complains_about_being_kicked_off_campus_after_he_started_randomly_hitting_on_undergraduates/
emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)greyl
(22,990 posts)But of course it looks like the lazy headline writer was quoting O'Reilly's knowingly misleading spin.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Not one of them cares about BJU conservative bias, Liberty Uni's conservative bias or Pepperdine's conservative bias.
Fuck Fox News
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Fake news gets treated like fake news.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)riversedge
(70,186 posts)Gothmog
(145,129 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)in the right to privacy.
The real problem is that most well educated people tend to be liberal because in order to
gain advanced degrees they had to learn to think for themselves. They understand
the concept of learning, intelligence, science, and the pursuit of truth.
Fox News can't stand it because they want everybody to be dumb, indoctrinated,
and mindlessly willing to follow whatever they say.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Political_beliefs_of_academics
underpants
(182,769 posts)Great link.
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)Remember that crap he pulled with Bernie Sanders?
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Is there a conservative bias there, or is that just common sense education to O'Reilly? Maybe check at Brigham Young.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Just a few weeks ago.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Iris
(15,652 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)The College of Agriculture, the College of Human Ecology (used to be Home Ec.), the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and the College of Veterinary Medicine are state schools, while the other colleges are private, but they're all part of Cornell University.
It's a strange hybrid, with lower tuition for the state portion for New York residents. Some majors (biology and psychology, for instance) are offered in both the College of Arts and Sciences and in one of the state colleges, so New York residents who want to major in certain fields enroll in the state program and get a break on tuition.
(I spent one year there on a language program and another year there as a visiting instructor six years later.)
Iris
(15,652 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)riversedge
(70,186 posts).....In the segment, OReilly and Watters express quite a bit of outrage that they are eventually barred from harassing students by Cornells media relations department, because thats not their job or anything.
Fortunately, the students Watters interviews not only outwit him, but hes so incapable of seeing that theyve done so that he victoriously includes their mockery of him in the segment, as when one student informs him that fortunately, Im indoctrinated, so I know nothing.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Make fun of a good university to marginalize them. That's how repugs have come to power, using those very tactics in all of their media. I applaud Cornell for ejecting Fux new's yellow journalists.