Associate Professor Charles Davis will rue the day he screwed with IHateTheMedia.com
We’re embarrassed to admit that IHateTheMedia.com has been ripped off by Charles Davis, an Associate Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. We’d feel a lot better about it if we’d been ripped off by a full professor, but alas, that was not meant to be. We were ripped off by a mere Associate Professor.
Davis thinks newspapers should create a “hate” beat.
Of course, the “hate” he’s referring to is that displayed by you angry Nazis who oppose ObamaCare:
The shrill incivility framing what passes for discourse on health care reform seems to have long ago crossed over into territory unrecognized by most rational citizens of the republic.
In the age of instant cable punditry, e-mail Astroturf campaigns left and right and made-to-order outrage, it’s easy to sigh, close the old browser and get back to the business of preseason football, but scratch a bit harder at the random news offered as so many one-off stories about unhinged denizens from the “town hall” meetings (has ever an honored democratic practice been so tarnished?), and a clear trend emerges.
Hate, shuffled off stage in the post-racial haze of the election of the nation’s first black president, is back with a vengeance. Hate, if it ever truly threatened to leave the political stage, is most definitely back, larger and nastier than ever.
As a near-absolutist First Amendment advocate, my prescription for hate speech is always more speech: Give the bigot a microphone as big as the hatred, I say, and watch as the marketplace of ideas works its magic.
Perhaps that’s why I worry, as I watch an emboldened mob grow more irresponsible with each passing day, that the mainstream media fails to give hate the coverage it deserves today.
My proposition is simple: Major news organizations need to cover hate the way they once did — as a standalone beat.
We hate that idea. We hate Associate Professor Davis. We hate the fact that he’s tenured. We hate his tie. We hate his pants. We hate his university. We hate its football team. We hate its cheerleaders. We hate its fraternities. We hate its lousy weather.
Back off, Associate Professor Davis. Hate is our turf.
Source: Columbia Tribune via Reason
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Even if you hadn’t run a photo I’d have guessed a beard. By the way, I Hate those glasses!
Hate the beard.
I hate the fat fold in his disgusting neck.
I hate that he didn’t mention IHateTheMedia.com in his article.
This is how you get tenure at a journalism school. By fairly, accurately and in a completely unbiased, fact-filled way, smear concerned citizens trying to get their &^$%#*%#ing elected representatives to listen for once.
Do you think he hates having to lie for a job?
When a person intends to make a fool of themself, step out of the way and let them. I believe that is the jist. However, the presciption offered by Mr. Davis would in fact be a sound and effective remedy if it were not for the fact that his original premise is so faulty. Bigotry and hate is not the motivation of the town hall dissidents.
I hate Haters!
Well, where was he when Cindy Sheehan was accusing Bush and everyone else of all kinds of hateful things. Where was he when oliver stone made a movie sympathetic to someone assisinating a president, similar to Bush, where was he when mobs of green peacers and other lunitics riot at Seattles G8 summit, where was he when environazi’s spin global warming into a ecocrisis just to serve their communist/socialist agenda.
Oh, sorry, those are hateful? Nah, it’s only conservatives who are hateful. Missed that….my apology. Good thing journalism is on hospice. Professors like Davis are the cancer that destroyed the press as we knew it.
Hating haters who hate what you hate isn’t hate.
This video got me mad
http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=115016763
It’s a link to CNN’s website where they have like a 20-person panel describing the LaRouche woman that barney frank fought with at his townhall as being representative of someone on the “Right” and theyh spend the whole time ripping Right wingers because of waht she did
These people are so damn ignorant I cant’ stand it
If that link is bad try this one
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/28/tea.party.express/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
And look for the link near the middle of the page called “Town hall outbursts
16:15″