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This is what I question. Who are these board members? What are their qualifications? This scale, which put Fox News at only slightly off center to the right, is highly suspect.
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It was probably the fact that Fox News puts a liberal to counter most of their conservative hosts (Colms to Hannity).
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this study is yet another example of crap "scholarship" from the right.
and conservatives wonder why academics do not take them seriously--and instead of thinking about the real issue, they whine about pc and all that--fact is that conservative ideology enables a whole swath of bad scholarship--conservative institutions fund studies that "confirm" ideological positions staked out in advance. these institutions seem to be under the impression that the presence of a scholarly-seeming apparatus (footnotes, etc.) means that the arguments around which their positions are built are somehow serious.
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I can think of PLENTY of crap "scholarship" from the left as well. Professors calling those that died in 9/11 Eichmans is a clear example. Another is the GROSSLY overcalculated innocent dead in the war, by a footnote declaring the war starting in '95 during the bombing campaign in retribution for attacks on Kurds under Clinton, and counting deaths from the embargo onward to today.
There are PLENTY of crap "scholarship" being thrown around roachboy, to just point out this one (with little evidence because we dont know the "panel") is just as bad.