College Textbook filled with Left-Wing Bias.

Thursday January 9th 2002. | Conservativeman55

[ConservativeMan55]

I recently finished reading a book for my college class. The book is entitled "Working with Words" and it is by Brian Brooks, James L. Pinson, and Jean Gaddy Wilson.

The book is supposed to teach you the writer how to write using AP style. I was fine with the book until the 13th chapter. The subject drifts completely away from grammer, and the authors go into a unrelated diatribe on racism.

Naturally being a conservative I was very upset by this, and will use this the next time I hear some liberal say that America's colleges aren't left leaning.

I will give you some examples of quotes from the so called "grammer" book. It goes on its own racist tirade giving statistics.

"American does not mean white. American doesn't even mean a citizen of the United States. Instead American refers to someone from North or South America. Period"

"Most unwed teen mothers in the United States are white. One in eight people in the United States was born in another country"

"At least 300,000 illegal immigrants add to the great diversity of our land"

The book then goes on for a page and a half prasing Hillary Clinton. The book also goes on to praise multiculturalism and says that it now defines the United States.
The book then bashes our forefathers,pilgrims,white men in general as being arrogant. It then praises political correctness.
The book then goes on to accuse the Pilgrims on treating children no better than animals, and complains about English Common Law.

It then goes on to talk about how great it is that gays and lesbians are getting more power in the media, and the country. Here is another quote.

"Often, those outside the white power framework are portrayed as villains without human characteristics attributed to default to whites"

It then goes on to talk about how the OKC Bombers were white, and how the press was wrong for looking for Middle Eastern Men in the beginning of the search.

Questions the book wants you to ask yourself before you enter the Broadcasting workforce....

"Have I sought diverse sources for the story?"

"Have I allowed preconceived ideas to limit my efforts to include diversity"

"Am I employing "tokemism" allowing one minority person to represent a community, or am I seeing true diversity"

If you would like to contact any of the authors of the book you may do so.

Brian S. Brooks
BrooksBS@missouri.edu

James L. Pinson
eng_pinson@online.emich.edu

Jean Gaddy Wilson
jeangaddywilson@aol.com

[koax]

gosh, i'm really surprised!

[ConservativeMan55]

This is required reading. If this is the grammer book, I would hate to see the history book!

[koax]

as a survivor of university education in amerika (as they spell it), i empathize! i was being sarcastic.

[ConservativeMan55]

Oh I know...its bad. This is my first year at a four year college, I haven't been to class, and I'm already seeing the bias.

[krb]

I will give you some examples of quotes from the so called "grammer" book.

If that's how you spell "grammar," then you need a spelling book, too.

[ConservativeMan55]

Lets get series about this left wing bias in our colleges.

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

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[Billthedrill]

These cretins have given themselves license to belch this stuff due to a convenient belief in the journalism community that since there is no such thing as "objectivity" one is free to propound whatever flat-earth nonsense one "feels" is appropriate any time one wants. And what is worse, this crap sells - and why not, they can force you to buy anything they want if it's a textbook. And still worse - they are comfortable doing this because so many others do.

If you feel like making trouble - I wouldn't recommend it, they get to decide if you get your piece of paper - but if you do, remind them that "diverse sources" MUST include conservative ones and challenge them to prove that they've included any. It's evident they don't bother to live up to their own benchmarks here, isn't it?

[SaveTheChief]

College Textbook filled with Left-Wing Bias.

I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you!

[ConservativeMan55]

I went ahead and read the book before I entered the class.
They make you buy it before you start school.
Anyhow, I don't know how my professor would feel about this chapter..but I'm not worried about how the authors feel because I have no direct consequence from them.
I do not go to the college in which the authors teach.

[Billthedrill]

Beware - somebody on your faculty recommended that book to a textbook committee, either because he or she (note the "diverse" usage there) knows the authors (true much of the time) or because he or she doesn't see anything wrong with it. (Or, worse still, because he or she hasn't read it. That happens more than you'd like to believe).

But don't panic. You do have an antidote - FR.

[krb]

Lol...good one...

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[ConservativeMan55]

Thanks Bill. When I read it, I took a deep breathe, and came here and posted it! LOL!

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump.

[nolaw0ady]

I think our colleges need more folks like you taking journalism class! Good luck in your studies :-)

[ConservativeMan55]

Thanks. I am attempting to join the OSU College Republicans Club. The website wasn't updated, but the group is still active! I'm excited about joining!