Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liberal Bias...
Manckiewicz added that this lack of concern with issues was especially reflected in television reporting. He said that Vice President Agnew was correct in 1970 when he accused network presidents of imposing their bias on network news, but he added that this was not a liberal bias...
...Siege, like Costa-Gavras' other work (Z, The Confession), is angry all right, and with cause, but it is also unnecessarily emphatic, too easy and simplistic, and stylistically jazzy past the point of stridency. His movies are like glossy international versions of Dragnet, with a rather different political bias. Like the dauntless Jack Webb, Costa-Gavras employs a sort of arhythmic, staccato editing and prominent, even aggressive music (by Mikis Theodorakis) to punch the movie along, giving it a kind of spurious suspense. His characters are mouthpieces, not people, repositories of conflicting political attitudes. In State of Siege they...
...those elitist Eastern radical intellectuals who distort the news. Then Clay T. Whitehead, director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House, opened up and has yet to quiet down. A recent sample: "Station managers and network officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or consistent bias from the networks--or who acquiesce by silence--can only be considered willing participants, to be held fully accountable by the broadcaster's community at license renewal time...
...choice of what is to be funded and 2) what is scheduled over the interconnection system which links all public TV stations, whether or not it has CPB funds in it." Under the new agreements, when it comes to supervising or trouble-shooting any problems in production, i.e. editorial bias or misreporting, CPB now has ultimate power while PBS is merely responsible for running equipment...