This is excellent journalism. The authors take a tested methodology for analyzing propaganda and test Bill O'Reilly's "no spin". Well written results show just how much spin there is here.

UI is not famous for being far left! The facts of this 6 months study report show the 'spin' and reference it to the Institute for Propaganda .... little is mentioned on the effectiveness of O' Reillys spin. Now when will this report be covered by the New York Sun? or NPR?

While I can't believe anybody would take the trouble to study this, I'm glad to have scientific support for the impression I formed after just about 60 seconds of watching O'Reilly one time. No spin zone my foot!

This is an announcement of a long and complicated analysis. The work is readily and freely available and substantiates the comments in the release. This release and the underlying work is important.

To describe Bill O'Reilly as a spin artist is to say the sky is blue. His distortions are the stuff which makes ultra conservatism the government of the land. Not only is reality an O'Reilly stranger, but his interpretations of history are flat-out wrong. That said, O'Reilly's supporters will consider the views of the rest of us as distortions of bible-banning liberals.

It is good to have this sort of analysis, that is beyond the bickering and name calling that seems to follow the enlarged heads of TV noise machines. Very recommended!

Great, scholarly debunking of O'Reilly's claim of "no spin." But then, scholars are evil elites, not plain folks like you and me.

Heh. It doesn't take a scholarly analysis to recognize O'Reilly as one of today's premiere purveyors of hate/fear porn. You just have to watch one of his shows while nourishing any few neurons you have left that are capable of understanding the concept of "objectivity". But I doubt that this analysis will change a thing. There is a large class of people in the population that will tolerate the most blatant nonsense so long as he keeps pushing their buttons on issues dear to them.

FOX enough said.

This report from a far left university could very well be labeled as propaganda. Boy, those mean and nasty conservatives! But of course O'Reilly labels himself an independent. Lets start with the charge that he calls people or groups names. What names you may ask. None of the documentation states this. Just take their word for it. Lets take another point trying to be made. Maria Elizabeth Grabe, associate professor of telecommunications, added, "If one digs further into O'Reilly's rhetoric, it becomes clear that he sets up a pretty simplistic battle between good and evil. Our analysis points to very specific groups and people presented as good and evil." Again no examples are given. Are child molesters good or evil? Is that ... More »