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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by Michael E Brant - Oct. 1, 2008

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 simplistic? Shoddy reporting.

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