Inside Higher Ed: A Professor vs. Fox News:
Students in a political science class at West Liberty University were
given an assignment recently to keep a "politics journal" in which they
would record their reactions to various articles they had selected.The instructor at the West Virginia public institution included some possible news sources, such as The Economist, BBC, CNN and The Huffington Post. But the instructor also specified that two sources could not be used. One was The Onion, which the assignment notes "is not news" and "is literally a parody."
The other barred source is the one that got the instructor —
Stephanie Wolfe — scrutiny this week. She banned articles from Fox
News, writing: "The tagline 'Fox News' makes me cringe. Please do not
subject me to this biased news station. I would almost rather you print
off an article from the Onion."
