I suppose this was bound to happen when you take away the team of highly trained producers, but could anyone have guessed Mike Duffy was going to fall on his face this many times?
“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….
“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 … those two texts are Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky’s book on mainstream media, and books about the theory of critical thinking.”
Atlantic radio host Rick Howe responded to the recently appointed Senator’s assertions better than I ever could, and he says what a lot of people in Ottawa have been thinking:
“Speaking of blowhards, I see where Senator MIke Duffy was spewing his dribble again. In a speech to Conservative party faithful in Amherst (who else would waste a night on Duffy) the former CTV News employee slammed journalism programs, like that offered at King’s here in Halifax, for turning out what he called leftist graduates. Duffy claims he went to the school of hard knocks where he was taught to be fair and balanced. If I correctly recall his nightly interview show on CTV, there was little fair and balanced about it. And of course today Duffy enjoys his reward for his pro-Tory bias.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Rick.
(h/t @nationalnewswatch for the Howe bit)
