Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Censored "News"

James mentioned something the other day about liberals taking over colleges. The claim is that the majority of college professors are liberals who are discriminating against conservative students, purging non-liberal teachers from their ranks, and preaching their ideologies to students as fact.

Purely by coincidence, StumbleUpon sent me to the Project Censored page, which claims to highlight news that was underreported, or censored by the media. It's interesting how obvious their political bent is; one of the first articles I noticed was Conservative Plan to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom,which is clearly in opposition to David Horowitz's agenda. Among the article's arguments is an embarrassing attempt to nitpick the Student Bill of Rights, as well as an attempt to compare the liberalism at universities to the conservatism at military institutions. I can only imagine the destruction that would be wrought if liberals were installed in military organizations. It would be like replacing your rotweiler with a beagle.

Other headlines that betray the bent of the site: Homeland Security Was Designed to Fail ,Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government, U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia.

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