Content analysis of O'Reilly's rhetoric finds spin to be a 'factor'

Commentator uses name-calling more than once every seven seconds in 'Talking Points Memo'

Bill O'Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the "No Spin Zone," but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric. Full Story »

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

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.

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