Jeffrey Milyo: (FCC and "Voter Fraud") Academic for Sale

[BradBlog]

Jeffrey Milyo, Academic for Sale?
When 'Academic Studies' are Needed in Support of Bush Administration/Republican Political Positions, the University of Missouri Professor Comes Through Time and Again...

-- Guest blogged by Tom Klammer....

"he role of advocate is, no matter what kind of information comes out, to sort of disparage it, and, you know, they’re fighting for a result, not the truth. And they already think they know the truth..."
That’s what Professor Jeffrey Milyo told me near the end of a radio interview I did with him in February. It was something of a parting shot he left for critics of a study he conducted for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on media cross-ownership, but it strikes me that he could have been describing himself.

Milyo is the University of Missouri professor featured in a BRAD BLOG article by Howard Beale earlier this month. The blog featured an enlightening exchange between Milyo and Senator Chuck Schumer during Milyo’s testimony before the U.S. Senate's Committee on Rules and Administration at a hearing to discuss whether photo ID voting laws lead to voter disenfranchisement. Milyo was unable to definitely tell the Senator's where the grant money for his study came from. Turns out, it came from an organization created by Mark F. "Thor" Hearne, the former Bush/Cheney '04 national general counsel, and one of the Republican Party's top operatives behind pushing for such photo ID laws around the country.

When I interviewed Milyo last February, it was about a different study he had done, this one about cross ownership of television stations and newspapers in the same markets. The findings of this Milyo study were just as dubious, just as friendly to the Bush Administration's political objectives, and just as fortuitously timed...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5845

[Kurovski]

1. "Thank You For Smoking".

K&R.

[Kurovski]

2. Oh hell.

Have I killed this thread as well?

:kick:

[Kurovski]

3. 30 views? Brad...have you recently eaten a puppy in public?

[BradBlog]

4. Not that I know of...

...but it's been a busy news day. And yeah, it's getting hellishly exhausting to keep up with it all.

Plus, it doesn't have either the words Clinton or Obama in the title, so it's not quite as "important" I guess :-(

[Kurovski]

6. Thank you for your exhaustive work.

You know we appreciate it despite any occasional, accidental baby canine-consumption. :hug:

[BradBlog]

7. And thanks backatcha

And again, I'm sorry about the puppies. Please forgive me :-)

[Kurovski]

8. Sometimes people confuse chasing down the hounds of hell with eating puppies.

All a simple misunderstanding, I'm sure.

[Zynx]

5. This is part of the reason I do not bow in awe of all academic studies.

Professors who aren't even on the take can have agendas.