tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115494882011-04-21T13:51:18.258-07:00<b>Overwhelmingly.</b> The Minnesota Daily (the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota) publishes 123% more liberal opinion pieces than conservative. <u><a href="http://dailybias.blogspot.com/2005/03/bias-at-minnesota-daily.html">Read the report</a></u>, if you haven't already.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14801526281281539556noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11549488.post-1171914657122226292007-02-19T11:50:00.000-08:002007-02-19T11:51:27.890-08:00

draftregular: &manual: &extra: &amp;

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regular : &manual: &extra: &amp;

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this &amp; is & a &amp; test.

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test2 &amp; test2

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test & test

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There's an old saying: "When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." This, apparently, is a lesson the Minnesota Daily has yet to learn.At the beginning of the 2004-2005 school year, Opinions editor Tim Burnett wrote, "What readers can and should demand is a balanced discussion...” When I read this, I had some hope that it would actual happen. The year before,

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In a column in the Daily's final issue of this semester, Libby George has revealed that the Minnesota Daily, has, in fact, been discriminating against conservative students who apply for positions there, resulting in an overly liberal editorial board.My two cents:1). It is interesting to note that she says she has known about this since "earlier this year," but chose not to write about it until

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I got this letter from Ivan Rosales, an IT student at the University, and I was so amused at his vain attempt to defend what the Daily is doing, I thought I'd publish it here, just so everyone can see how pathetic the left's argument is. (A nice picture of the author is included.) My editorial comments are in bold."I saw your website claiming that the Minnesota Daily has a liberal bias. I

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Why does it seem that each time an out-of-state congressman writes a piece for the Daily, it's all liberal FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt)? Wasn't the last occurrence when Sen. Harkin wrote that ridiculous piece of draft fearmongering shortly before the election?Here's my response to a "Republicans will kill Social Security piece" that the Daily printed today from Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D, obviously

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In Wednesday's Daily, Tim Miller of the Campus Atheists and Secular Humanists seriously proposed that 'religious leaders have a bias against certain “sins,” like homosexuality, that they cannot understand,' completely ignoring the parts of the Bible that call out homosexuality as an immoral abomination. This is such a laughable assertion that I was sure there would be a letter from a Christian

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Below is the full text of my e-mail debate with Karl Noyes about his Secret Service column. His responses and the text from his original article are bolded for easy comprehension. Now you can decide for yourself if I was making degrading points or if Noyes thinks himself too important to respond. Text in red are points I made that Noyes has not yet responded to; be forewarned - there's a lot

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I've been e-mailing back and forth with Karl Noyes, trying to get him to explain his recent column regarding the Secret Service. In a recent e-mail, rather than answering some questions I had posed to him, he asked me, "Do you support what is being done in Guantanamo and Iraq with prisoners?" I asked why it was relevant, and this is the answer I got:"Hello Mr. Finke,Your support of Guantanamo or

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It appears I was not the only one who saw through Karl Noyes's fantasy piece about the Secret Service as the anti-art brigade. The Daily printed a letter from graduate student Ben Ellingson today that brought up many of the same points I did in my letter, but in a much more reader-friendly manner. If you want a good summary of the misleading points in Noyes's article but don't like my

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There are a few misleading points Karl Noyes's anti-Bush, anti-facts column that I felt needed to be made more clear. "The artist, Al Brandtner, had the gall to create a panel of enlarged postage stamps with Bush and a handgun lurking in the background." If by "lurking in the background," Noyes meant "pointed at his head in an execution-style fashion..." I've attached a picture of the

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Regarding Sean P. Corcoran's slanderous attack on the conservative and religious sectors that the Daily chose to run today:Bill Frist never said that HIV can be contracted from sweat and tears; rather, he said it would be very difficult to get HIV from sweat and tears. He said, and I quote, "It would be very hard. It would be very hard for tears and sweat, I mean, you can get virus in tears and

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Reserve your "Liberal Bias: I Get It Daily" t-shirt today. Once there are enough requests, an order will be placed. The cost per shirt should be somewhere around $7; e-mail fink0120@umn.edu with your name, phone number, and t-shirt size, and you'll be contacted when the shirts are goign to be ordered.

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Do you ever get the feeling while reading one of Nick Woomer's columns that all he is trying to do is inflate his own self-importance? Me too:

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At tonight's diversity forum, Opinions Editor Tim Burnett defended Nick Woomer up and down against some students who took offense with Woomer's offensive opinions.However, Burnett mentioned that he was hesitant to run this piece by Erik Tisthammer (a Christian perspective on Christ's suffering, run during Holy Week) because it sounded "too preachy." Nevertheless, now that Burnett had suffered

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If you haven't noticed, the Daily's editorial cartoons tend towards the left. This, it turns out, is because U of M alumnus and ex-Daily staffer Jack Ohman now works as an editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian and provides his cartoons to the Daily free-of-charge. Fair enough; if only there were a popular conservative cartoonist willing to do the same...At my request (or pleading, whichever way

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Well, I just got off the phone with Tim Burnett, Opinions Editor at the Daily. Even though it took some time to actually get him on the phone, (nine days, three phone calls, two e-mails, and one website), I was, overall, pleased with Tim's willingness to listen. We talked about this study and what findings I had, and he said that, while he couldn't believe that as many opinion pieces were

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Update: Tim Burnett, Daily Opinions Editor, (surprisingly) found this cartoon "funny" and "really well done." Apparently though, the Daily decided not to publish a cartoon acknowledging a liberal bias at their own paper. Go figure...

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An anti-Iraqi-liberation protest made the front page today, full of comments from clueless protestors, (“I feel a need to oppose this ongoing injustice to the Iraqi people as well as to the American people.” - right, since freedom and democracy are such injustices...) but what I really loved was this picture:"University student Dan Gordon, portraying the United States, beats Lewis Derry,

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It's been one week since I notified Opinions Editor Timothy Burnett (612-627-4080) and Ombudswoman Libby George (612-627-4080) of the study, and I have yet to receive a comment on it. Feel free to contact them as well in order to get some answers. Updates will follow.

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In the 2004-2005 school year's premiere issue of the Minnesota Daily, Opinions Editor Timothy Burnett addressed some criticisms toward the Daily regarding a perceived liberal bias: "Readers’ letters and other submissions frequently complain of a bias at The Minnesota Daily... [W]e seek to facilitate the best discussion possible, judging submissions based on writing quality and position

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Below are the 100 words used most often in liberal and conservative opinion pieces. (Red text indicates a match between the two lists.)LiberalCountPer articleConservativeCountPer article1. the3180(14.01)the1898(18.79)2. to1749(7.70)to915(9.06)3. of1500(6.61)of872(8.63)4. and1416(6.24)and817(8.09)5. a1220(5.37)a704(6.97)6. in1004(4.42)in551(5.46)7. is821(3.62)is437(4.33)8. that607(2.67)that405(

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In the interest of full and easy access to all of the data used in this study, here is a list of all articles classified as neutral, ordered by the date on which they were published. (Note: When the article is a letter to the editor, the number after the hash (#) in the url denotes which letter it is, since all letters are published together.)If you find an article that you believe is incorrectly

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In the interest of full and easy access to all of the data used in this study, here is a list of all articles classified as conservative, ordered by the date on which they were published. (Note: When the article is a letter to the editor, the number after the hash (#) in the url denotes which letter it is, since all letters are published together.)If you find an article that you believe is

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In the interest of full and easy access to all of the data used in this study, here is a list of all articles classified as liberal, ordered by the date on which they were published. (Note: When the article is a letter to the editor, the number after the hash (#) in the url denotes which letter it is, since all letters are published together.)If you find an article that you believe is

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