Word: biased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first that Harvard students are completely behind the war effort. Even more heartening than the 78 per cent who thought we were right in going into the war is the 89 per cent who want us to fight it through to the finish. Also encouraging is the definite internationalist bias, evidenced by the 86 per cent who agreed that after the war we shall have to give up some national sovereignty, to cooperate with other nations...
That simple, natural, excusable national bias, combined with national censorship, would of necessity cramp your style, I had no doubt. And I felt sorrowfully reluctant to read a TIME relegated to propaganda, however compulsorily. So, immense credit is due you for stating honestly to your readers your exact position with regard to the news...
...Rosten's poll of Washington correspondents ranked the Tribune next to the Hearst press as "least fair and reliable" of all U.S. newspapers. That poll reflected the Tribune's savage anti-Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines...
Next day many of the same ladies appeared in Trafalgar Square for a more down-to-earth cause. Under the slogan BOMBS SHOW NO SEX BIAS they called on the Government to make compensation rates for war-injured civilians equal for men and women (instead of averaging 28 shillings per week for women...
...eating around. Fears have been expressed, however, that without the present minimum, certain Houses would be overcrowded. Well, that depends on whether any House has a special attraction which would upset the law of averages. To our unjaundiced eye it doesn't appear that there is any such bias. It is greatly to be hoped that House masters and House committees will take the lid off, temporarily and experimentally at least...