Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper could not seem to translate the wealth of its new owner, Eugene Meyer, into a voice that anyone but die-hard subscribers would hear. On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times spoke loud and clear, but it was far from the center of things, and its deafening bias against any news or newsmaker that might threaten the interests of the Chandlers or their land-holding friends had become a joke to outsiders. Humorist S.J. Perelman recalled stopping at Albuquerque during one train trip: "I asked the porter to get me a newspaper and unfortunately the poor man, hard...
Perhaps the reason the ARCO Forum has provoked no uproar is that at Harvard, such an alliance seems so natural. But it is not too late to begin to change this situation. Students should demand that the Kennedy School disavow this alliance and the political bias it represents. The School should heed the Biblical dictum, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches," by returning the money and renouncing ARCO's name in order to restore...
...lethally into the earth (hence, fancifully, toward China), is not a totally outlandish possibility. Ironically, though the film's fictional plant is located in California, the example that is offered of the devastation a meltdown could cause is an area the size of Pennsylvania. Even more ironically, given the bias of the film makers, what actually happened at Three Mile Island is far more serious than the "event" portrayed at the fictional plant...
Several Harvard students and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, testified in the early 1977 trial, where defense counsels implied jury bias against the three black defendants...
Whether this bias is hidden as a superpower, cold war calculus in the fashion of the Time article, or marked out as some latter day white man's burden, it is a bias that the American press, and the American people have not yet overcome. The lessons of Vietnam are still as unlearnt as the lessons of Iran. And as long as we continue to see only one option--support of a westernized client--the press and the public buy the line that the U.S. can overcome the opposition that their clients' repression inevitably creates...