Reply #32: I'm not sure, though.

[Iris]

I mean, I went to college with some pretty immature ideas and had excellent instructors who made me reconsider them. I don't remember any one of them coming out and saying I was just wrong, but maybe they said things like, "Are you sure about that?" or, one in particular I remember on a paper I wrote, "were the 60's REALLY liberal?"

So, as an instructor myself, I'd probably try to find a way to point out to the student giving the speech and the rest of the class that the media is not liberal, maybe using it as an example of the kind of political rhetoric that gets repeated over and over even when it's not necessarily true. If these were persuasive speeches, then the student was merely persuading, but that doesn't mean the assertions should not be challenged.