Monday, November 10, 2003
Okay - here we go.
Today's topic is: FOX News. Today, many people in one of my classes began ripping on the FOX news channel for being a conservative news network controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Of course, I mentioned that CNN was partly created by Ted Turner, a liberal man if there ever was one, and they just blew it off.
Later, we read our teaching philosophies and one student actually said his teaching philosophy is to make his students realize that George W. Bush is a bad, evil man on the level with Hitler. Critical thinking apparently requires hating conservatives and buying the liberal party line without question.
What bugs me is the lack of critical thinking among English majors. Overall, they just mouth idiotic liberal phrases like "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" and act as if the debate is over. (Because to argue is to show yourself as an evil western colonialist with views that resemble Nazis. You may think I'm exaggerating - I'm not. The other day, in the graduate student lounge, several students complained loudly that Paul Wolfowitz hadn't been killed in Iraq yet).
Today's topic is: FOX News. Today, many people in one of my classes began ripping on the FOX news channel for being a conservative news network controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Of course, I mentioned that CNN was partly created by Ted Turner, a liberal man if there ever was one, and they just blew it off.
Later, we read our teaching philosophies and one student actually said his teaching philosophy is to make his students realize that George W. Bush is a bad, evil man on the level with Hitler. Critical thinking apparently requires hating conservatives and buying the liberal party line without question.
What bugs me is the lack of critical thinking among English majors. Overall, they just mouth idiotic liberal phrases like "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" and act as if the debate is over. (Because to argue is to show yourself as an evil western colonialist with views that resemble Nazis. You may think I'm exaggerating - I'm not. The other day, in the graduate student lounge, several students complained loudly that Paul Wolfowitz hadn't been killed in Iraq yet).
