Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Multiplying the Impact. The Kennedys were upset by the anti-Johnson bias of the book, but what really moved them to try to block its publication and serialization is the almost embarrassingly personal material on Jackie's reaction to the assassination. In talking to Manchester, Jackie was totally unguarded; she expected him to use his own judgment in sorting out what material should and should not be used. According to the Kennedys, his judgment...
About a third of the film reflects no political bias: shoppers in a busy department store, workers in a modern textile factory. About a third of it is warmly pro-Ho: President Ho Chi Minh himself appears only in stills, but the movie offers an interview showing Premier Pham Van Dong as a merry little grig who seems about to warble Whistle While You Work. There is also a sequence in which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third...
...students, perhaps out of a sense of guilt for having themselves been protected, were willing to abolish their own deferment because of its class bias, and because they felt that such a move might, as one student put it, "tame the military monster." The student-faculty alliance prevailed, in a large measure through perseverance -- a number of administrators and faculty members tired sooner and went back to their classrooms before the final vote...
...experience a cold March morning in the mind of a girl grad student. Though superficial action roots her in downtown Syracuse, her memory and imagination yield lucid vignettes of infinite variety; at one point we cut to Rimini; at another, a recollection of her lover's anti-psychiatric bias prompts a flashback, and these changes in locale from an exhilarating narrative texture...
...means that there is a pervading reluctance to take sides on any issue. "I find an almost excessive lack of bias on television," says Howard K. Smith. "We are afraid of a point of view. We stick to the old American belief that there is an objectivity. If a man says the world is round, we run out to find someone to say it is flat." Network executives are also quick to delete any portion of a news program that might offend any powerful segment of the audience. Top management, said the late Edward R. Murrow, "with a few notable...