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The majority of Mr. Prager's assertions are actually correct, notably the assertion of Liberal dominance on college and univerisity campuses. While a (part-time Active Duty Navy) student at Chapman University, I encountered the bias head on. I wrote a term paper on the fallicy of Hate Crimes legislation, and received a B minus for my effort, when I should have gotten a A. This is only because the proffessor did not agree with my viewpoint, which of course was (and still is) the conservative view. This is known to be a common occurance; many youngsters who hail from Republican/conservative households are often browbeaten this way. Talk about intolerance!

Perhaps with the exception of a few reruns on PAX, television is indeed a Liberal fantasy land, where the likes of Kenneth Starr (on an old Law & Order episode) are made out to be sexual busibodies, and Dr. Laura (an intolerant Radio Talk Show host lambasted by the 'President'-Josiah Bartlett) trashed on The West Wing. Michael Medved aired clips from that episode on his show. Fair and balanced...oh yeah.

I could go on, but I'll just cut right to the chase: Leftist Liberals want nothing more than TOTAL dominance, controlling everything they get their grubby mitts on.

...And of course, unlike Talk Radio, there are no 'Feedback' or 'E-Mail' Mr. Rather, Mr. Brokaw or Mr. Jennings buttons on any of the major network websites-at least none that I've seen.

-Regards, T.

Yep, the bias I detest the most is what you see on campuses. And I am petrified personally!! I am taking online classes from Penn State working toward a higher degree and one of the required classes is called "The Mass Media and Society"... I start it this week :( I checked it out with someone who already took it, the Professor is not only an intellectual snob, but he is extremely liberal... or is that redundant?? LOL Plus, I find that one of the required materials is a 12 week subscription to the "New York Times" as the world's "newspaper of record" as he calls it....

I am scared to death! Here we are going to be using the NYT to discuss how newspapers effect public opinion and if I breathe a word of how I feel I lose the 4.0 GPA I've maintained for years...

Help, anyone??
Tammy

"This is only because the proffessor did not agree with my viewpoint, which of course was (and still is) the conservative view."

That was my experience in college as well. Thankfully, I had really not started taking much of a political view at the time. I framed my beliefs in the context of right and wrong. I had to work three times as hard and produce a much better product than my liberal, and I might add, often less studious, classmates. I was challenged by many professors for believing that there are moral absolutes and I spent all my years in college locked in a war of ideology with them. I stood my ground though, and challenged them constantly. In retrospect, I think I was something of a curiosity. I eventually graduated magna cum laude, but I think I put more into each year of my education than some students put into their entire college career.