MetroNews.ca: Mike Duffy slams journalism schools for thinking critically

[tuvor]

Senator Mike Duffy has attacked the University of King’s College and other Canadian journalism schools for exposing students to Noam Chomsky and critical thinking.

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“When I went to the school of hard knocks, we were told to be fair and balanced,” Duffy was quoted from his speech in yesterday’s issue of the Amherst Daily News. “That school doesn’t exist any more. Kids who go to King’s, or the other schools across the country, are taught from two main texts.”

According to Duffy — a former CTV News journalist appointed to the Senate last year by Prime Minister Stephen Harper — those two texts are Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky’s book on mainstream media, and books about the theory of critical thinking.

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Kim Kierans, head of the King’s School of Journalism, was surprised to hear Duffy’s comments.

She said Manufacturing Consent isn’t part of the curriculum, though students do read some Chomsky.

She made no apologies for teaching critical thinking.

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http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/canada/article/478808--mike-duffy-slams-journalism-schools-for-thinking-critically

[Spazito]

1. Well, that is understandable...

The slimy piece of shit wouldn't know critical thinking if he 'fell over it'. He regurgitated the right wing line when he was mistakenly called a 'journalist'. Disgusting creep.

As to his comment on Chomsky's book, well, it seems he is channeling the Texas Board of Education, nuff said.

[daleo]

2. Duffy is against "thinking"

Let alone critical thinking.

[Metric System]

3. I didn't think it was possible to loathe him more. For years he showed just how fair and balanced he

was on CTV News while regurgitating the latest talking points from the Con war room. No critical thinking skills required there. Duffy wasn't a journalist, he was a Con puppet doing their bidding. And he was rewarded with a plum Senate seat for his efforts.

[Blue_Tires]

4. shameful...

[Toilet]

5. Since when is

Chomsky "critical thinking?"

As far as i'm concerned, it's all relative.

[Spazito]

6. LOL! I am shocked, no, really, shocked...

that you think this way! :rofl:

Oh, and what do you think of our modern day Bonnie and Clyde (the druggie Jaffer and the 'tantrummy' Guergis)? I am surprised you have yet to comment on this, talk about lack of critical thinking eh!

[tuvor]

7. Your reading comprehension skills appear to be lacking.