Actually the phenomenon of Fox News is an excellent example to illustrate the problem some do have with diversity of thought and supports McG's comment:
Quote:It's very easy to overlook the opinions you agree with.
How many on the left EVER have a problem with what theyhear on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PNR, or any of the alphabet cable channels? And why do they rant and rave about Fox News? Why? Because Fox has the audacity to present a different point of view that you are far less likely to hear from the other sources. One or two here would go so far as to flat out say that any of us who avail ourselves of any sources of information other than the alphabets or clearly leftwing sources are brainwashed, tunnel visioned, uneducated, along with several other uncomplimentary conditions.
I conclude that even though it does present both side of issues, those on the Left view Fox News as extreme and blatantly biased purely because it DOES present a point of view you do not hear on the alphabets. Fox dares to present a point of view the Left disagrees with. And the Left thinks the alphabets are fair and balanced and unbiased because they project a point of view that those on the Left most often agree with. Those on the Right can see the bias. Those on the Left do not.
It only makes sense that there are some colleges somewhere now that do a good job of teaching. My first university was one of those but it was a small, obscure, backwater institution little larger than a modern average city highschool. And yes we did get to know our professors personally and yes they were a mixed bag politically but there was a good mix and we did get a good rounded education. Maybe it is in this kind of environment that consevative professors are finding an unpoisonous environment.
The only schools that were included in the more modern polling data we've cited, however, are the large, prominent, well known schools. The disparity between conservative and liberal faculties is so wide that it is entirely possible that a student could go through four or more years of study and never encounter a conservative professor. If the student knew little or nothing to begin with, and the course and lecture material was not clothed in clearly identifiable political and/or sociological trappings, the student would not know how s/he was being indoctrinated with one point of view.
S/he would never have to think about it much and could just consider any conservative exposure on the 'outside' as uneducated twaddle.
This situation would be even more extreme if the student came out of a mostly left-leaning highschool and the university reinforced and affirmed partially developed opinions until the student was thoroughly brainwashed and incapable of seeing any other point of view as valid. The next thing you know s/he is posting on A2K and holding in contempt, ridiculing, and insulting any who dare to have a point of view other than the only one s/he can see as valid.
I would be as opposed to only the conservative point of view prevailing on mainstreamed college campuses as I am opposed to only the liberal point of view prevailing on college campuses. I would not encourage my kids to attend any school that was rigid in ideology or did not give them all points of view to consider or that would ostracize or coerce them to adopt only one sociopolitical point of view.
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