Fox News Publicizes Study Finding 93.6% Democrats/Greens in Ithaca College Faculty

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

Carping about the excesses of clueless crybabies since the turn of the century.

Tongue Tied at Foxnews.com

April 17, 2003

Surprise Surprise

A survey of political diversity at Ithaca College in New York found that of 125 professors who registered to vote at the college 93.6 percent did so as Democrats or Greens, reports the Ithacan.

According to the study, sponsored by student Republicans and the local Republican party, only eight of the 125 professors on campus who registered with a political affiliation in the county describe themselves as Republican or Conservatives.

Asma Barlas, an associate professor of politics, says she is a firm believer in diversity, but not the sort of diversity the Republicans have in mind.

“I do believe Ithaca College can do a better job of diversifying its faculty, most of whom are white males,” she said. “Not having a Republican on our faculty is not the only yardstick by which we can measure diversity.”

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The tenure system must die or undergo some serious modification.

As with most things the left touches, the tenure system has been corrupted to become the opposite of what was intended. Tenure was supposed to give support to the free rein of ideas. Instead it has become the yoke of one theme - Communism. (or one of its aliases Socialism, Liberalism, Progressives, or whatever their latest reincarnation is)

[fhardesian]

absolutely, I'm glad I don't work in a university. Even the janitors probably have to be party men.

[bray]

Free Speech is not allowed in academia!

Pray for GW and Our Troops

[PrincessB]

This is not a shocker. I took a History/Philosophy of Higher Ed. class where the teacher said the most important factor for tenure is getting along with the rest of the department. She gave us some "radical" stuff to read that was so on the money as far as academia is concerned. I think she's a closet Republican trying to get along.

[goldstategop]

Could be. You don't want to be "outed" in a modern university. You can be black, or gay, or lesbian, or female, or a Democrat, or a liberal, or a Marxist, or even a post-modernist but heaven help you if its discovered you're a Republican or that most unthinkable of creatures, <gasp, a conservative!

[Nick Danger]

This is what really disturbs 'mainstream' journalists about Fox News. Fox will tell the public things that a good Democrat would not want them to know.

This looks like disloyalty to the average reporter at the Washington Post. It is "unprofessional conduct." It is "sensationalism." It is all kinds of bad things, because managing the news so as to produce Democratic Party victories (for the public's own good, mind you) means that no one can break ranks.

For a long time this was standard practice. Some local paper might print the embarrassing words of a Patty Murray, but that's where it would stop. No one needed to tell the duty editor at AP that this story was not to go out over the wire; spiking it was instinctive. Democrats are good, Republicans are bad, and it is the duty of every journalist to point that out at every opportunity. Since it is the "truth," doing so is being "objective."

Now comes Fox News, going completely off the reservation by telling people things that a Democrat wouldn't want publicized. How can they do this? They must be biased. They must be right-wing fanatics.

The worst part about the ratings success of Fox News is that the "liberal curtain" that manages what the public knows about can no longer maintain control. Millions of people are now regularly exposed to news stories that good Democrats would have spiked. This is new. It is frightening. How can good journalists protect the public from the evil Republicans when some of their own colleagues break ranks and let stories like this get out?

Just think of the havoc this is going to cause as the 2004 election approaches. The Democratic candidate will make the same number of gaffes candidates always make, but now millions of people will hear about every one. It won't just be the Republican's gaffes that get on the news, all of them will. Where's the advantage to the Democrat in that?

Oh sure, Dan, Peter, Tom, and CNN will all run live video of the Democratic candidate in action, with the very best sound bites selected each day. And they'll summarize what the Republican said while an unattractive still photo of him is up in the corner of the screen. But there will be millions of people who see -- certainly on Fox and maybe now even on MSNBC -- crowds cheering not just the Democratic candidate, but the Republican as well! It will look as though there are people out there who actually support the Republican! What kind of journalism is that?

That's not fair and balanced. That's not even objective. It's giving the evil Republicans a chance to get their poisonous views in front of the public! It's right-wing propaganda!

[goldstategop]

Its the way good journalists are supposed to be. And I feel it will make a difference difference in the outcome of the 2004 election. In 1992 there was no Fox News Channel, conservative talk radio was still in its infancy, there was no Free Republic. How different the landscape looks now. Its still far from being a level playing field but things are moving in the right direction and that's what frightens the Left. They can no longer count on the entire media being kept completely slanted in their direction now that people have alternatives available to them to whom they can and do turn to.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[familyofman]

"From your questions/remarks, you do seem to be pretty naive how a modern campus operates; things are far more political than they were even 30 years ago."

Color me naive - I don't have any experience with the modern campus. I only have what I think should be & being someone who dislikes quotas of any stripe I find counting the number of any subgroup to be difficult to defend.

I hope your political beliefs will have no impact on your career in the future.

[mc5cents]

Peggy R. Williams, President of Ithaca College

Ugg. Bet she is BEST friends with Hillary. What do you think?