Journalism Students Mock Fox News and Hannity in Hip-Hop Song

Journalism Students Mock Fox News and Hannity in Hip-Hop Song

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:07 ET

People always ask why a liberal bias is so prevalent in the media when more Americans admit being conservative than left-leaning.

One of the answers is that journalism schools at our nation's colleges and universities are hot-beds of liberalism.

As a perfect example, the following song was created by graduate students at Columbia University's School of Journalism.

Rapping over Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind," the students mocked the Fox News Channel and host Sean Hannity as they sang to their class about ethics in journalism (video embedded below the fold with subtitled lyrics, h/t Breitbart TV):

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"But there's no need to hear crazy, Or create false sense of parity, Like Fox News and Hannity."

Makes you wonder whether these journalism students know how many liberal contributors there are at Fox versus conservative contributors at ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and PBS COMBINED!

Somehow I doubt their professors discuss that parity.

In fact, these kid probably admire MSNBC's Keith Olbermann despite the fact he almost never invites anyone on "Countdown" who disagrees with him.

How's that for parity, boys and girls?

Viewers should also note the line, "I'm not a prostitute," which could be a not-so subtle dig on Hannah Giles.

I guess to these folks, exposing a crooked organization like ACORN doesn't meet their ethical standards.

Makes you wonder how they feel about "journalists" aiding and abetting one presidential candidate's White House ambitions.

In the end, if conservatives really want "parity" in the media, they're going to have to do a better job of getting this message out at America's journalism schools or else a whole new generation of liberal reporters will be showing up at a television station or paper near you.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.

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Columbia

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:34 ET by jessieH

Columbia University is a mockery of teaching.

Students

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:39 ET by allanf

I take it none of these students will accept a job with Fox News. Unemployment, or a job in at an outlying newspaper would be more condign.

As for Columbia itself, it won't accept money from News Corp?

ironic...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:54 ET by michiganruth

...that Columbia's president Lee Bollinger is a big free-speech advocate and 1st Amendment expert. I guess that only goes for apparatchiks, huh Lee?

Lee's all for free speech

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 17:24 ET by allanf

as long as it does not offend a protected group.

Lefturd Theology

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:38 ET by Thinking.Man

Is about to be flushed down the toilet of history, what replaces it will either be freedom or complete facism.

If it's facism they will have nothing to worry about since they will be the first against the wall if B-Daddy pulls it off.

Any news organization that

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:43 ET by buddyc

On second thought maybe they are are smarter than I thought. They know most jobs will come from the liberal media outlets.

Any news organization that

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:40 ET by buddyc

Any news organization that hires a graduate from Columbia School of Journalism is NUTS.

Have they read their professions' ethics?

"People always ask why a

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:40 ET by notonmywatch

"People always ask why a liberal bias is so prevalent in the media when more Americans admit being conservative than left-leaning."

Foreign ownership, plain & simple. Don't be fooled by the BBC-style argument "it's OK, we polled our staff and yes they are biased". Don't confuse bias with propaganda.

They are paid to do the job of propagandizing people, so that's what they do. It's got little-to-nothing to do with the faces that front the message.

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Those Evil Foreigners

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:54 ET by Unsane

Foreign ownership explains Leftist media bias?

Then please explain Fox News, owned by that evil foreigner Rupert Murdoch.

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

I remember making, as a

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:42 ET by HockeyKid

I remember making, as a student, foolish comments about Ronald Reagan in his run against Carter. Within 6 years, I had grown up and started paying taxes, and Reagan was my hero.

Sadly, these students are being taught not to grow up. Ever.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Ugh...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:52 ET by ConservativeClark

Another snobby elitist school with a left-wing agenda. I didnt know that singing sh!tty songs remixed to the MSM's talking points was now accepted cirriculum.

Brings back memories

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 10:53 ET by KC Mulville

Oh I remember those days back in philosophy graduate school when the neo-Thomists used to sing ribald songs about the Platonists. I was a just starting my pragmatist phase, and, oh boy, how we jousted with the German idealists. What puns we played on Immanuel Kant's name!

You know what gets me about this? These graduate school journalists ... the movers and shakers of tomorrow ... could only get this published/broadcast on YouTube!

excellent!

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:21 ET by Kekela Ward

Great post KC!!!
I don't expect to see an intelligent and snarky comment like that at Kos, or any other leftist site!

Sam: "I hurt somebody's feelings once"

The Old Media broadcast only by the New Media

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:39 ET by KC Mulville

Thanks ... I'm still laughing about the irony of this being on YouTube.

→ Mos' Def

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:03 ET by Cool Arrow

These kids weren't even born when the Chicago Bears did the "Super Bowl Shuffle"

Nothing original here.

OK, maybe it's a bit disturbing that they're more than willing to overlook truth if it doesn't fit the prescription.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Jobs

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:18 ET by Joe Camel

Soon, one will not need worry, as there won't be a venue for them as the press continues it's downward spiral into irreverence.

Profile in Error

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:25 ET by CO2Maker

Hip-hop, schmip-schmop.

I want to know who picked the cover photo? Geez, that's a dreadful picture.

Is that really the President? Is it even a healthy human being? Or is it the farmer who's taken over by the alien cockroach in Men In Black?

→ Goofy, fer sure

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:29 ET by Cool Arrow

Now that you mention it, they do seem to have enlarged the cranial region a bit. Making him look like some kind of brainiac.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Unfortunately, these wet-behind-the-ears...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:28 ET by PrairieSky

little snots are indicative of what's being produced by the journalism programs (undergrad and grad) across the country, and are the next generation of delusional leftists that will be running the media organizations. Lord help us all.

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

class assignment

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:30 ET by cajun2

If this was an assignment for "ethics" class you get a "D". There is a difference between journalism and opinion. Unless, of course, your instructor is Jane Hall, Gene Lyons, Paul Krugman, Anita Dunn yada yada yada.

I'm glad these good little socialist are so flippant

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:36 ET by Thinking.Man

It will help them keep up the "Hope" that something "Changes" and that they can become employed.

Lefturds simply don't have a clue

Circulation Down 10.6%

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:41 ET by BW222

The Audit Bureau of Circulation just reported that newspaper circulation is down 10.6%. Hopefully, these J-school students have a meaningful minor like flipping burgers.

One thing I will give them is that Sean Hannity's new format is "unwatchable." Between having the same people on every night, the lame "great, great, great American Panel" and Sean saying "Let not your heart be troubled" every 10 minutes, the show really sucks.

If FNC was smart, it would switch Hannity's and Beck's time slots.

BW222

→ BW222

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:47 ET by Cool Arrow

I'm bored with him too.

Greta's putting on a better show than him these days.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Re Hannity

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:00 ET by slickwillie2001

Agreed. He did finally get rid of the liberal definitions segment with the goofy carnival music, but the panel is just as lame. They need to go back to the format as with Colmes. Maybe Williams or Powers could be the new liberal. By the way, 'besmirched' is his other favorite word.

Hannity's radio show is also bad

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:33 ET by SouthJersey1953

My only choice for talk radio on the drive home is Hannity. I can only take so much before I switch over to sports talk, which bores me at times, but is better than Sean's constant repetition of his talking points. Don't get me wrong. I agree with most things Hannity says, but I get extremely tired of hearing it over and over and over again.
I can't stand when he takes calls, "Let's go to our busy-busy phones" (which he states between EVERY call!). Most of the time he doesn't seem to even listen to the caller. He picks out key words, then grabs that word and spouts the matching talking point. Often, if he had listened to the caller, he might have realized they asked a valid question or brought out a good point. I would love for the local station to drop him and pick someone else up (anyone).

"Maybe if we keep our heads buried in the sand, this will blow over" - The Congressional Republicans

Re Radio

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:45 ET by slickwillie2001

I make the joke around here that I can go out and mow the lawn during the run-up to Hannity's radio show. It's really a bit much.

If Hannity had any brains....

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:39 ET by MightyMouth

...He should just have Bob Beckel on every night trying to explain the latest Obama/Biden gaff! Now that would be Teevee!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

I can't believe we are

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:41 ET by MightyMouth

I can't believe we are leaving this great society to these dimwits.

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

The anger and outrageousness will get worse...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:49 ET by Slyrr

Now let's hear their professors speak about how they water their pillows at night with their tears of sadness, mourning and crying over the 'loss of civil discourse' in the country today.

Any self-respecting teacher would not only flunk these students, but cast them out and send them back for remedial education until they get their heads on straight. Whether liberal or conservative slated, such a purile and spiteful 'presentation' should be considered a mockery of college-level education, and any institution which allowed it should be ashamed to call itself a college.

If THIS is the next generation of 'journalists' who these people are raising, then civil discourse will get worse and worse until someone turns up the volume so loud that it will stir up violence and revolt.

These misled kids will look to Olbermann and Matthews as their exemplars - and will undoubtedly try to become their successors by making the dialogue, the bias, the propaganda and lies even more outrageous.

I predict that soon the media will either collapse under the weight of it's bias and failure, or be taken over by Obama completely under the disguise of 'preserving our traditional media news outlets'.

God knows they're not successful business models - theyr'e losing viewers, readers and customers left and right, and the few who remain could fit in a phone booth. The only way they'll survive is a government takeover which forces taxpayers to give money to these hate machines at the point of a bayonet.

I wonder if these parents

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:48 ET by Radical1979

I wonder if these parents know that this is what they're paying for. No wonder the rest of the world is beating the cr*& out of our educational system.

Chances are the parents...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:10 ET by PrairieSky

of these kids wholeheartedly agree with the libnut indoctrination that they are paying for. Given the black eye that journalism in this country has, the parents would have to be dim indeed to be unaware of what's going on at their kid's school.

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

The news would be better

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:57 ET by Chris Norman

The news would be better served if, instead of worrying about getting an opinion show off a news channel, these little liberals worried about getting their opinions out of their news reports.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Here's my confusion...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:57 ET by retrocon

While I know that these kids are obviously just regurgitating the tripe that is being spoon fed to them by their profs.

And, I realize that they have little experience in the real world.

But to claim to be journalists, to say all the things they do in that rap about facts and accuracy and parity, and then to be so completely unaware of the concepts of news versus Op/Ed, to believe for a moment that Fox is any more biased than an MSNBC, CNN, or CBS when the facts are all there...to be so blind to reality that they don't see the extreme left bias of those other news orgs...

Are they really that stupid? do they have no compulsion to seek out the truth for themselves? I have trouble believing that they know that they are lying, so it must be that they just aren't very smart. Can't think for themselves. I don't know, it's getting more bizarre every day.

Apparently!

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:13 ET by Patriot II

The socialist school systems "brainwashing" techniques are working, the students don't have enough gray matter to discern for themselves, they just site like bobbing heads, believing any lies told them.....sad state this country is in!!

→ Schlubs

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:17 ET by Cool Arrow

Looks to me like a study group was on a deadline, had just seen a bunch of kindergartners score big on youtube, and the rest is just a natural offshoot.

MMM MMM MMM

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Cool...

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:21 ET by Army Brat

Thanks. I pert near spewed my tea.

They would most certainly appear to be on the same wavelength...both instructed/inspired by their teachers to kowtow to the Won.

Mmm Mmm Mmm

Obama is a liar and Truth is

killing his Marxist agenda.

Sam: "I hurt somebody's

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:20 ET by Kekela Ward

Sam: "I hurt somebody's feelings once"

Jason Blair and Stephen Glass are Liberals

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:08 ET by OxyCon

I say cut the kid some slack. He used Liberals as poor examples just as he singled out Hannity and Fox. It's not like he deliberately singled out conservatives only. Plus they were all having a good time and he was clever.

Now if his work was nothing but an anti-conservative rant ala Olbermann, I wouldn't be so generous in my critique.

School of Journalism?....

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:17 ET by Army Brat

It's not a school. It's an institution of indoctrination and nothing more.

The words journalism and journalist have no place there whatsoever.

Obama is a liar and Truth is

killing his Marxist agenda.

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 13:57 ET by mom_rox

I would love to see a YouTube parody of Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 with the all of the Obama-admiring singing students - from the youngsters to the teens in camouflage to the J-school students and their Bush-bashing teachers and professors.

(Make sure to include the North Carolina teacher who browbeat the girl, whose father is in the military, for not supporting Obama.)

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

~~save your tea, dump congress~~

Sad

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:12 ET by client8

I wonder if the people present were presented witrh subtitles like us. They certainly needed them. No Lyrics about Matthews, Olbermann or Schieffer. To them its a world-changing event when Obama opens an envelope.

Think things are bad now?

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:12 ET by chessplayer

Think things are bad now? These are the "journalists" of the future. Think of Olbermann and Matthews and Rather magnified a hundred fold.

Journalism.

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:22 ET by blazermaniac

When you use the words "Journalists & Jay-Z", in the same sentence, you have a complete disaster. Jay-Z proves once again, that "RAP IS CRAP".

Columbia = Frankfurt

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:37 ET by RR GOP

Columbia = Frankfurt School.

Yeah, a bunch of Communists that everyone feels sorry for that had to leave Hitler's Germany in the '30s. Looks like the national socialist lack of compassion for differing points of view (subversives actually) has reaped great rewards for the much more superior/tolerant US of A.

Still think these guys aren't dangerous? Still want to waste breath bit@hing about long dead Nazis? They were stomped into the ground loooong ago, and they aren't the ones teaching our youth, and they aren't the ones running the country.

Sitting around going on and on about Hitler and every real and imagined atrocity conceivable for sixty years now has been a diversion and forced us into the position that Hitler's enemies certainly had to be decent folk like us.

Whatever.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Funny, You Don't Share This Kind Of Contempt Towards TEA Parties

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 22:43 ET by The7Sticks

Look, I agree that these student journalists are a complete set of douchebags. But I also share that contempt towards these douche bags that dress up in their Patrick Henry uniforms and tri-corner hats, and go off inanely claiming that spending should be reeled in. These two groups know nothing about what they are talking about. Sometimes, you need to take the Donny and Marie approach of being a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll. Maybe we should try "I'm a little bit capitalist" and "I'm a little bit socialist". Isn't that a refreshing concept? Sometimes you have no other choice but to go that route.

(yawn)

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 22:47 ET by Free Stinker

(yawn)

Free's scorecards

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 22:54 ET by MrShy

I miss Free's scorecards. But then, we're just blowing trolls out these days.

Good grief, 7 sticks -

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 20:23 ET by BO STINKS

that post is too dumb to deserve a response.

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" Sam Adams

It's always refreshing (and

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 20:33 ET by FeynmanFan

It's always refreshing (and funny) to come across someone who doesn't clutter their opinions with details and facts.

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

Que'lle idiote!

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 20:37 ET by Blonde

I hope he fails, too.

I'm a little bit capitalist" and "I'm a little bit socialist".

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 20:42 ET by MightyMouth

Pretty smart Bumpkin.
Too bad you don't understand that they are polar opposites. Unlike "Country" and "Rock-n-Roll" which share things like rhythm, beat and lyrics. What a goofball!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"