Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts. Pincus cites an article by Tad Szulc that appeared in The New Republic in June claiming Soviet violations of the SALT agreements. The piece made it seem as though the USSR was the only violator, Pincus says; it was ironically pro-U.S. military. He attributes the bias to Zionist criticism of the Soviet Union. "You can let the ideology come out in your conclusion but you have to offer the reader the basic facts," says Pincus who is now a consultant to NBC news...
Your reporter also exhibited considerable bias, for he ignored the main, novel issues that were discussed and that provided the framework for the inquest. These included the question whether the criticisms of the study were so serious and so firmly grounded as to justify an appeal to the general public; the obligation of a professor, in generating such an appeal, to see that alternative views are presented; the significance of the precedent of regulating research by one-sided adversel publicity; and the question whether the university should remain passive in the face of such inroads on intellectual freedom...
...inadequacy of the paternalism of the past, many professionals are concerned about the danger of public responses based on emotional appeal and on inadequate information and perspective. It is sad and discouraging that a meeting held to discuss this problem should be reported in terms that reinforce the bias that is under discussion. Bernard D. Davis Adele Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology
...Cartoon. Television is one form of entertainment in which critics rarely affect the box office, so it is hard to assess exactly how effective Deeb has been. But his denunciation of bias in a pre-election special led WGN-TV to grant equal time to Mayor Richard Daley's opponents. Deeb's criticisms helped prod the public TV network to air a documentary about the funeral business that the industry had tried to halt. He helped pressure a local station into dropping a cartoon series that he considered too violent...
...HAVE TO CONFESS to a certain amount of bias on my part as I begin to review this book. Except for my parents, there was no greater force on my formative years than the cartoons in the New Yorker...