Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters "write for their bosses" and 2) editors and publishers are "the real villains." Many legislators complained, however, that capital reporters are either incompetent or show bias in favor of their newspapers' editorial policies. Complained a Florida lawmaker: "During our special session on reapportionment, one reporter threatened to 'ruin' a legislator with publicity if he did not change his vote...
...Crisis of the Old Order, a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection for March, shows Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger jr. handling history with the touch of a man assembling ammunition for a political campaign. Schlesinger hardly bothers to disguise his bias or his political philosophy, which (at least on the evidence of this book) boils down to the slogan: let Government do it. And he clings to the curiously innocent notion that Government can run the economic show without eventually controlling the entrances and exits of personal and political freedom...
...most eloquent, hard-hitting critics of the ratings are the services themselves-when speaking of their competitors. Nielsen, for example, argues that human error, bias and forgetfulness work against the accuracy of the others' methods. He says also that their samples are usually unreliable. In special surveys, he has tested the accuracy of the other methods by the yardstick of his own and says that all three fall wide of the mark. Nielsen's rivals-who also rap each other's techniques-seize on the fact that Nielsen's national system measures the tuning of sets...
...Southern public schools creates problems that can dismay the most idealistic of men. Last week, after five months of investigating the effects of integration in Washington, D.C., the four Southern members of the House subcommittee headed by James Davis of Georgia issued a report that, for all its obvious bias and sensationalism, contained some shocking facts about what a Southern city can be up against. Chief findings...
Unique Capacity. This was the sharpest attack on Russia that Nehru has made, and next day the Times of India happily hailed it with the headline, EMOTIONAL BIAS IN FOREIGN POLICY GIVEN UP. In cold fact, the praise was only partly earned. For every admission of Russian guilt that Nehru made, there was an offsetting reference to Anglo-French guilt in Egypt. At least once Nehru seemed to imply that the invasion of Egypt was morally worse, saying: "There was no immediate aggression [in Hungary] as there was in the case of Egypt...