Word: bias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inside your front cover are these words: "Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publications, fairdealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no groups...
...sennin' ye back TIME for Sept. 24 jist as it cam tae me, because I haena time tae strauchen it oot. If TIME hisna time tae fauld it ony ither wy than on the bias, an' wi' the aidges o't crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer...
...cinema industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...
...consciousness of the South, its ideal of a sovereign China free from foreign influence is attributed the impetus that drives its forces steadily toward Pekin. And in the dispute with dominant Japan, the United States is suggested, as a probable mediator. Because of important American business interests a natural bias will suggest a decision favorable to imperialistic enterprise and prejudicial to the anti-foreign Chinese Nation. Such interference with an independent movement is presently pragmatical, but it forestalls the day when all peoples must be autonomous, and it suggests too much another Nicaragua...
...assembled editors unanimously decided it was a newspaper's duty to its public to publish the story, straight-f orwardly, without bias, without playing up its sensational angle...