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To: KLP who wrote (91966)	4/10/2003 4:33:54 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It would be enlightening to all of us, if you could watch Fox Cable News (not the regular Fox...it's terrible...) and let us know when the "frame" you suggest is there, gets tilted even further right. Or left, as the case may be. Sorry, Karen, I've been treating this exchange a bit cavalierly. My wife and I are both news nuts. Watch the stuff far too much of the time. When CNN made it's move to personality TV and MSNBC just seemed too bland to do anything right, we found ourselves watching Fox now and then. Once the invasion started CNN, when Blitzer would stop talking and let Christiane Amanpour talk, was decent. And MSNC got a bit better. So we departed Fox with a sigh of relief. At any rate, it's hard to find a moment on Fox that did not have the furthrest right frame. When Juan Williams is as far left as they can go on a "fair and balanced" panel, it's pretty clear they don't get it. Brett Hume doesn't even pretend to have some distance to his politics. I could go on but it's an old topic with me. I'm sure that you told your students to study a subject from all possible angles. After all, how could they know something for sure, if they didn't do the research themselves. Actually, I didn't. My entering students either couldn't take a position and defend it if their lives depended on it or thought that if it was on the internet or printed in a book, it must be true. I had to teach them to step back and find a critical place from which they could evaluate their readings, some place they felt comfortable with. Then I had to teach them to take a position and advance arguments for it. It took forever for them to realize that the point of having a mind is to use it; not to parrot someone else's or check the student in the next seat to see if their view was acceptable.