Indiana scholars put O’Reilly under microscope
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
May 9, 2007
By Rosa Brooks
Poor Bill O'Reilly! Members of the vast left-wing conspiracy really can't stand him. They denounce him, they mock him, and now the final indignity: They study him as a lab specimen.
Three Indiana University scholars just released a "content analysis" of O'Reilly's trademark "Talking Points Memo," the brief commentary with which he opens his daily Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor." The authors begin by informing us, with some consternation, that four in 10 Americans actually think O'Reilly is "a journalist." But after many charts and numbers, they conclude that he's really just a big right-wing bully.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/17197729.htm
Learn more about the IU School of Journalism at:
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/
Learn more about the IU Department of Telecommunications at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/
Read the press release detailing the study at:
http://info.iu.edu/news/page/print/5535.html
