Don’t know why he felt it necessary to go to Rosen’s class when he could have just read Press Think to see Rosen’s bias.

His “bias,” eh? You mean the opinions he freely and openly expresses with absolutely no subterfuge of any kind?

Rosen’s a gasbag, but this episode made only O’Keefe and his defenders look foolish, not Rosen.

Not buying the “explanation” or the unbiased “journalism” of this writer.  Journalism is dead, replaced by propaganda.  Look up the part of the “communist manifesto” read into the Congressional Record and check off how many of their objectives they have achieved with the help of the dupes and the complicit teachers and journalists.  So now we have an entire generation “educated”  in socialism, and group-think, but not math, science, reading, English, geography, and history, and most importantly, critical thinking.  Just as in Germany, many pretended not to know what was happening, so in the USA, many pretend not to know, and will be held accountable, if not in this life, then in the next. 

Well, there is a certain intellectual honesty in Rosen’s opinion that journalisst should wear their political biases on their sleeve instead of (poorly) denying them.

Perhaps O’Keefe should have gotten some help on the “pro” side of this “pro-am” journalistic venture…

i know it is the latest craze, but is there really any point in running 6 tweets/”reactions” with this story that say literally the same thing?

Actually, soda, there’s more math and science being taught now than in previous years. I might agree with you on the critical thinking, but that’s more of the fault of the individual who chooses not to exercise it.

Not really. I guess any time someone retweets this, it’s picked up as a response. But that is pointless. As you said, it’s today’s craze, and anyone who disagrees will be labeled a curmudgeon.

Or maybe, just maybe, many of us aren’t particularly ideological. I know it makes the world simpler for simple people to navigate, this belief that everybody’s in some kind of camp, pushing an agenda. The smarter of us, though, simply aren’t. You at least are refreshingly honest in your alliance with Rosen – you just come out and admit that you and he are of a piece. The actual dogma doesn’t really matter – all that matters is that there IS dogma. That way, you don’t have to pay attention to any details, nuances, seeming contradictions, etc. You can just pit dogma against dogma, black against white, up against down. See? Simpler!

I asume it’s done by an automated ‘bot? Falls under the category of “just because you can doesn’t always mean you should…”

That said, I simply ignore them. Then again, I largely ignore Twitter.

Of course it’s automated. I’m not sure what the big deal is — it’s just a list of the tweets that mention this item. 

So automation is automatically good? And no, it’s not a big deal. But it is worth mentioning.

“Just as in Germany” when?  What are you talking about?  If you’re concerned about critical thinking, your characterization of education and “an entire generation” is missing any sense of critical nuance.  I don’t think Jay Rosen, or any university professor, is a puppeteer, controlling society. 

As for accountability, James O’Keefe is a propagandist of great skill, editing videos to support his explicit ideology, and rarely posting the complete accounting.