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NYT: Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats; Update: Beck Responds
Jan 24th
From January 21 New York Times article:
On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangering her life.
Frances Fox Piven, a City University of New York professor, has been a primary character in Mr. Beck’s warnings about a progressive take-down of America. Ms. Piven, Mr. Beck says, is responsible for a plan to “intentionally collapse our economic system.”
Her name has become a kind of shorthand for “enemy” on Mr. Beck’s Fox News More >
Glenn Beck Now Offering Hard News
Sep 1st
Time For Glenn To Put On His Journalist Cap
Glenn Beck is now the keeper of a modern day Burning bush (at least that’s what he’d like people to believe)…
Glenn Beck is a willful deceiver, an intentional misinformer and a disseminator of reckless vitriol. But, don’t even think about criticizing Glenn Beck for it. Why? Well, for the past few years, Glenn Beck and his defenders have argued that Mr. Beck is not a hard newsperson, but instead an entertainer and a commentator. Thus, they contend that Mr. Beck should not be held to the standards of a journalist.
In the abstract, More >
