Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theme journalism often appears to be biased reporting. But Griffith believes that bias is less prevalent than it used to be, at least among "straight" newsmen (as opposed to the underground press and New Journalists who "live at the intersection of fact and fiction"). In any event, Griffith is no preacher of bland impartiality. He argues that newsmen should have a sense of commitment and responsibility, provided that their general convictions do not cloud their judgment in handling specific stories. He urges readers to "suspect an indifference that calls itself impartiality; it is the pedestrian asset of secondrraters...
...complex by Donald Hermann in The Crimson of March 19, 1974. The unfortunate circumstances which surround the Harvard and Radcliffe students are as integrated as the corporate bureaucracy could possibly create: Questions (specifically in Chem 20) are a mark of the student's stupidity, only stylized rhetoric affirming the bias of course administrations is acceptable as independent thought, and students grab ahold of Harvard's "brand" name and distinguished institutions (e.g., the Pudding) as the last thread of an identity. The problem is that this is not a school, it is a corporation. The school is run for the corporation...
...many unthinkingly declare Eliot "the greatest poet of this century," Robert Frost was no less rash, dubbing him "a tricky poet and mealymouthed snob." Indiscriminate condemnation and equally indiscriminate Eliotolatry have characterized public opinion from the beginning. Matthews consistently avoids, or at least conceals, such head-over-heels bias; he confronts the man on equal ground...
...still a valid basis for treating persons differently under the law? Yes, said a unanimous Utah Supreme Court. "We realize that as a court made up of men there is a possibility of masculine bias," conceded Justice J. Allan Crockett for the five-member panel. But noting such "widely accepted" ideas as earlier female maturity and male breadwinning responsibility, the court upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement...
...Railroads," says Louis W. Menk, "are a growth industry." As chairman of Burlington Northern Inc., the nation's biggest railroad, he might be guilty of some slight bias, but his opinion is widely shared in financial circles. The oil shortage has made coal critically important as an alternative energy source, and most coal moves by rail. Shippers of other goods are beginning to realize that freight trains consume only about one-fourth as much energy per ton-mile as trucks do. And the Nixon Administration's newly proposed Transportation Improvement Act would protect railroads from discriminatory local taxation...