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Franken also commented on the recent lawsuit against his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The suit was initiated by Fox News Channel, who wanted “fair and balanced??—their trademark phrase—removed from the cover. The case was ultimately dismissed, and Franken said the presiding judge called the suit “wholly without merit, both legally and factually...
Lies caused a stir this summer when News Corporation’s Fox News Channel sued to have their trademark phrase “Fair and Balanced?? and the image of the channel’s commentator, Bill O’Reilly, removed from the book’s cover. Penguin books, Franken’s publisher, accelerated the launch of the book to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the suit...
...themes Ferguson develops are similar to those developed this month by University President Lawrence H. Summers in his three-part Godkin lectures on globalization. Responding to Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents, Summers argued that in the attempt to provide a more “balanced?? approach, history books have distorted the history of industrialization and globalization. While the Industrial Revolution brought prosperity and the free exchange of goods, it did so through racist policies, violence and exploiting weaker peoples. Thus, many new textbooks take a neutral view of the Industrial Revolution—sort...
...News Channel. Fox News, or as I like to call it, “state-run television” (the televisions in the Bush White House are tuned to it), commits the cardinal sin of deceit every time they flash the slogan “Fair and Balanced?? or “We Report. You Decide.” O’Reilly himself lies to his viewers every night by posing as an “independent” who resides in the fantasy land of the “no-spin zone...
...proposal to ask the administration to ask professors to ask Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) officers to approve their courses for ROTC credit is an absurd and underhanded attempt to show support for the discriminatory institution itself. The Staff’s notion that this declaration is somehow balanced??by making life easier for the cadets while remaining neutral on the ultimate status of ROTC at Harvard—ignores the crucial fact that encouraging University interaction with ROTC officials is a tacit endorsement for ROTC itself...