Last Wednesday, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and his guest, comedian Dennis Miller, poked fun at a Cornell course titled “The Refusal of Work”, which is cross-listed in the comparative literature, English, and American studies departments. O’Reilly and Miller made light of the class in a segment on Campus Reform’s Biased Course Contest, which awarded this...
Insider favorite Keith Olbermann ’79 was at Bailey Hall tonight and, while he gave a talk that was, at times, ridiculous, funny, and (yes, I’ll admit it) pretty good, the real draw came in the question and answer section. The first questioner, an older gentleman who looked to be one of Ithaca’s crazy but lovable...
Pew Research has some illuminating data on the composition of audiences for the major cable news networks. A couple of quick highlights/conclusions can be extracted from the data: 1) Democrats make up a bigger percentage of Fox News’ audience than Republicans do of CNN’s audience. (The article does note that more people identify themselves as...
Sorry to keep beating a dead horse with a stick, but here’s a video of top Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett dodging a tough question on media bias from CNN’s Campbell Brown. As O’Reilly pointed out last night on The Factor, it’s interesting to watch all the news networks suddenly rally around Fox News.
– Continuing with our series of posts about the war between the White House and Fox News, check out this alternative viewpoint from Joe Klein. Even though he fits into the camp of people who think Fox “peddles a fair amount of hateful crap,” he still maintains that the administration is making a big mistake...
On Wednesday, Dennis wrote about Nile Gardner’s article on the war between Fox News and the White House. There’s no doubt about it – a battle has been waged and the Capitol Hill generals are of the likes of Rahm Emmanuel, Anita Dunn, and David Axelrod. Today, Charles Krauthammer (a.k.a ‘the Hammer’ at the Insider)...
Nile Gardiner has an excellent article in The Telegraph about why the White House will ultimately lose its war against Fox News. He argues that by openly declaring war against Fox News and accusing it of opposing the administration, the White House will only succeed in drawing even more viewers to the cable news channel....
– Television news anchor Walter Cronkite died on Friday. He was well before this writer’s time, so I will let Robert Feder and John Dickerson speak for his legacy in American journalism. Robert McNamara also passed away earlier last week. – An quick and interesting survey of the party affiliations of top Cornell administrators and...