Sunday, January 04, 2009

Bias: Media and Academic

American Thinker today has two stories about purveyors of bias, one in academia and the other in the press.

Middle Eastern Studies on the Mend?
"In recent years, Campus Watch (CW) analysts have leveled a barrage of criticism against the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) as a bastion of groupthink for scholar-activists peddling a politicized agenda. CW's current director, Winfield Myers noted that its "reputation has been shattered by years of politicized scholarship, one-sided teaching, and bullying students." Jonathan Calt Harris, formerly with CW, called the organization a "hive of academic opposition to America, Israel, and, in the larger sense, rationalism itself." After years of responding to such criticism with cries of "McCarthyism," MESA just might be owning up to a few of its failures."
and

Dictators to the Right of Me, Presidents to the Left

"From the AP to Reuters and from the New York Times to the Washington Post, the MSM stories on the Cuban Revolution's 5oth anniversary all mention a "dictator"-- but his name is Batista. The Castro Brothers invariable appear as "Presidents". Fidel has ruled (unelected) longer that Hitler and Stalin combined and mandates what his subjects read, say, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work. No matter. He's a "president"."
Note that MESA, the subject of the first one, is the home of the infamous "scholar" Juan Cole, whose shoddy scholarship was exposed and shredded by the brothers at ITM.

The second is written by the author of Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him.

Check them out.

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