Cornell University kicks Fox News off campus after questions about 'liberal bias'

Post Standard, Syracuse, New York ^ | October 27, 2015 | Geoff Herbert

[thefactor]

So the press should have unfettered access to publically-funded spaces? Of course not.

The government isn't stifling Fox's speech here. It is merely saying, "you can't film here for commercial purposes right now."

[GOPJ]

"It's not that diverse, because according to this report, 96 percent of the donations from faculty here went to Democrats," Watters shot back.

Cornell University 'Diversity:

A white liberal,

a black liberal,

an Asian Liberal,

a Unitarian Liberal, a Catholic liberal,

a Gay liberal,

a Lesbian liberal, an anarchist liberal,

a Hispanic liberal,

a transgender liberal,

a mentally ill liberal,

an old liberal,

a new liberal,

a red liberal,

a blue liberal...

Yep, that's real diversity.../s

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Why would they? Fox is just as Elitist/Establishment as MSNBC!

Now, to be fair, Fox is GOPe but MSNBC is wild-eyed progressive.

[Lazamataz]

Now, to be fair, Fox is GOPe but MSNBC is wild-eyed progressive.

.... but you repeat yourself.

[riverdawg]

‘So the press should have unfettered access to publically-funded spaces? Of course not.”

I didn't say anything about “unfettered” access. It is my understanding that governments may impose reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on access of the press to public property, but these restrictions must be content-neutral. So, Cornell can't allow, for example, HuffPo or the NYT to conduct on-campus interviews and then deny the same access to Fox. And, with a few specific exceptions (jails, grand jury proceedings, closed-door government personnel or land-acquisition sessions, active roped-off crime scenes, etc.) “reasonable” restrictions can't be 24/7 and applied to all of the public property.

[Verginius Rufus]

Cornell is a highly-selective Ivy League school. Their graduation rate is 93% and the percentage of Democrats is evidently 96% among the faculty. They would probably like to get both up to 100%.

Maybe to keep out the riff-raff from enrolling as students, they should have a questionnaire: "Do you now or have you ever listened to Fox News?" Anyone who answers "yes" would be excluded.

[Drango]

Cornell is getting beat up pretty badly on their FB page. LOL

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump:

[2harddrive]

Too bad Google says this whole website, every last thread, is infected , at least to users using the Chrome browser on PC’s! (Maybe not all Mac’s?) Free Republic is UNDER SIEGE by the Left Front!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Yes. When I got the warning this afternoon I was using Google Chrome on a Windows computer. Now I’m home on my Mac and I don’t see it