Posts Tagged Fox News
Critical Thinking
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 16th, 2012
The IBJ reports that Indiana’s ISTEP test will be revised to include a new emphasis on critical thinking. I hate to be snarky, but have they considered giving that portion of the test to our state legislators? Or perhaps to Romney advisor Ed Gillespie, who appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, and “explained” [...]
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Chickens and Eggs
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 14th, 2012
Chris Mooney has written several books about science–or more accurately, the rejection of science by conservative Republicans. His most recent book is The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality. While Mooney has an obvious political perspective, his analysis of the role of media–and specifically, Fox News, is interesting. Mooney reviews [...]
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File Under “Best Takedown Ever”
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on May 13th, 2011
I could write a long blog post in “academic-eze” trying to analyze or explain the utter dishonesty of Fox ‘News,’ and the network’s constant efforts to twist anything and everything to fit their hysterical anti-Obama agenda. Or you could just watch this absolutely brilliant take-down from the Daily Show. I love Jon Stewart!
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Padded Bras and Evan Bayh
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 14th, 2011
A hoax story circulated over the weekend about an Islamic council in Pakistan protesting the use of padded bras. Fox “News” doesn’t fact-check, as we all know, so it reported the story as fact. Also today, Fox announced that Evan Bayh would be joining the network, as a “Democratic” commentator. Kevin Drum summed up the [...]
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Policy and Polarization
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Free Speech on April 18th, 2010
Numbers cruncher Nate Silver took a look at the recent New York Times poll of people who consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement, and noted that media habits were the most salient predictor of such support. According to Silver, “Tea-partiers are disproportionately attached to, and perhaps influenced by, FOX News. And they are [...]
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