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

Indiana University Media Relations | May. 2, 2007 (News Analysis)

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 Dave Martin - Oct. 1, 2008

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.