Bill O’Reilly likes to call people names. A lot:
What the IU researchers found in their study, “Villains, Victims and Virtuous in Bill O’Reilly’s ‘No Spin Zone’: Revisiting World War Propaganda Techniques,” was that he was prone to inject fear into his commentaries and quick to resort to name-calling. He also frequently assigned roles or attributes — such as “villians” or downright “evil” — to people and groups.
Using analysis techniques first developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, Conway, Grabe and Grieves found that O’Reilly employed six of the seven propaganda devices nearly 13 times each minute in his editorials.
Content analysis of O’Reilly’s rhetoric finds spin to be a ‘factor’ (Indiana University, via Art of the Prank)
The charts and graphs detailing Bill’s fantastic universe are fun to look at.
glittering generality has just replaced inequity aversion as my favorite people-related phrase.
ps. the link to the paper is broke.