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After a May 4 Los Angeles Times op-ed by Rosa Brooks highlighted a study presented at the 2006 ICA Conference in Dresden by Mike Conway, Maria Elizabeth Grabe, and Kevin Grieves (U of Indiana), which reported that Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly calls people names every 6.8 seconds in his show's (The O'Reilly Factor) opening monologue, O'Reilly's producer Ron Mitchell published a rejoinder on May 10 both to Brooks and to the authors of the study. In his piece, Mitchell misrepresented the study and its authors several times, including their methodology, context, comparison of O'Reilly to Father Charles Coughlin, and their funding sources. On May 16, 2007, Conway, Grabe, and Grieves responded to Mitchell in the LA Times. A summary of the LA Times controversy and ensuing dialogue can be found at Media Matters. |