Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mariano said that television's reliance on only upper-class, English-speaking Vietnamese as news sources, resulted in the reporting's pro-Thieu bias. He defends the one-sidedness on practical grounds, however...
Some of the media's bias can be at- tributed to government lying and pressures, Mariano said. A government press handout he will distribute to students in his seminar requests that reporters substitute "Viet Cong extortionists" for "Viet Cong Tax Collectors," for example...
...need to deliberately lie or censor, although that does happen. Misinformation may be as natural as deciding that certain stories should stay on page 57 (or not run at all), and failing to use radical news sources while regularly printing the latest State Department press release. Status-quo bias is almost everywhere, from a rightist local Daily Monopoly up through the New York Times...
...unrequited. Though Speer recognizes the Führer's monstrous propensities, he is still able to write, wholly without historical remove: "[He] had the ignorance, the curiosity, the enthusiasm and the temerity of the born dilettante; and along with that, inspiration, imagination, lack of bias...
Straightforward political bias, though, is really the least of Ec 10's problems. After all, students of the course do read some Galbraith, and they learn a little about tax reform and income redistribution. They spend some time on trade unions. Like its oft-revised textbook, Ec 10 has been modified and broadened over the years; neither course nor text presents a monolith of capitalist dogma. But the modifications are tacked-on afterthoughts. Ec 10's fundamental self-enclosed, self-absorbed system has not changed. The basic material is a maze of rules, jargon and graphs with a compelling internal...