Posted on 10/28/2015 6:47:25 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Cornell University is defending its decision to remove a Fox News Channel reporter from campus after he asked questions about "liberal bias."
The … college made national news Monday when host Bill O'Reilly sent … reporter Jesse Watters to investigate a report that claims 96 percent of political donations from faculty over the past four years went to Democratic candidates. The … segment asked students if they thought there was a liberal "indoctrination" on the Ithaca campus, but was interrupted by Cornell's deputy director of media relations Melissa Osgood asking them to leave.
Neither Osgood nor John Carberry, the Ivy League school's senior director of media relations, would give a reason on camera for asking Fox News to leave… a statement issued later also didn't explain the decision, only saying "Cornell does not consider a person's political stance in its hiring practices."
Fox News continued the segment off-campus...But the showdown still sparked controversy and …and raised questions about freedom of speech and the press (Cornell is privately endowed, but is also the state's federal land-grant institution and a partner of the public State University of New York system).
"Don't they understand that they look 18 times worse than if they'd just left you alone?" O'Reilly asked Watters.
Cornell defended its decision in another statement released late Tuesday:
"Cornell University believes in exposing students to a diverse set of perspectives. Our decision to apply our media policy to Fox News... was motivated by our responsibility to protect student privacy..."
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple disagreed with Cornell's concern about "protect[ing] student privacy."
Watters "poses no greater a threat to student privacy than… the Internet or any number of other avenues that college students choose these days to overshare," Wemple wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
Not like their students are adults or anything...
I don't know how old O'Really's kids are but I'll bet a dollar to a donut that when it comes time for them to fly off to college, he's going to send them to a left-wing indoctrination factory as left-wing as Cornell.
I'm guessing Hahvahd.
even here I get warnings, if it is a negative remark.
Face Book is worst with warning they don't approve your negative remarks about any liberal jerk...
what is going on??? has Hussein Obama taken over the Internet??? just wondering...
Translation: We are deathly afraid that our students might be made aware that there are points of view which conflict with our own.
Like many universities, Cornell is more a religious cult than an institution of higher learning. (I spoke once with a reknowned Cornell biologist who has become a Christian, who said pretty much just that.)
What is sad is that the kids really believe this XXit.
In all fairness, while Cornell is a liberal bastion, and booted FOX because they don’t like FOX, the reporters are also to blame because they were doing ambush-style reporting.
It’s a technique to thrust a microphone in somebody’s face, along with an impatient question, in an effort to make them look bad. If the same question is asked, then they are given a minute to think about it before answering, they sound less foolish.
If you see a reporter doing this, never play along, or you could find yourself in the news looking deficient.
A non-answer answer.
Liberal bias?
Does a Black Bear crap in the woods?
Cornell University believes in exposing students to a diverse set of perspectives.
What a bunch of liberal BS. Cornell only wants the liberal viewpoints given by their sheep professors. They aren’t interested in hearing opposing views. Yep, Cornell fits right in with the lefty college hacks.
One conservative is not allowed to ask questions but the Cornell faculty can spout liberal dogma all day long to a captive student audience. If a college truly respects freedom of expression and diversity of political views, it should not get defensive when a lone reporter asks innocent questions.
Its also apparent that Cornell is anxious about have ignorance exposed in its own students. But Jesse is trying to provoke some of them into expanding their thinking process and learning more. One would think that type of thing would be applauded on any campus.
Contrast this with the way in which Liberty University not only invited Bernie Sanders to speak on campus, but gave him a warm and polite reception.
Then tell me who is really about free speech.
Cornell alums should demand this bitch be fired. It was a discretionary call and she blew it.
Provocative, far left speakers get invited to liberal schools like this all the time. That never seems to bother anyone. But when one conservative wants to ask a few questions there’s an uproar.
What is Cornell and its like minded schools afraid of?
yer welcome
That must be taken from the course description for Newspeak 101.
My daughter spouted this crap to me when she was a junior in college about ten years ago. We were visiting her at her house and I turned on the television to get the news. “Dad! We don’t allow Fox News in our house!” I’ve never been so shocked and appalled in my life. My own daughter, at an “institution of higher learning” dedicated to freedom of thought, had willingly closed her mind and didn’t see anything fundamentally wrong about it.
I believe O’Reilly is a Harvard grad
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