Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Family. Craig Gilbert and his camera crew were given permission to film the Loud family, sort of "Californian Kennedys", and the results are fascinating and controversial. According to the filmmakers, the footage was edited with no bias in mind, and it has been the reviewer's experience that the program brings out the worst in the viewer rather than in the subjects. Most of the episodes are dull when viewed separately, but the cumulative effects are devastating. This is a second chance to catch a truly experimental work, for what that is worth, but if you hated...
...bias was pretty obvious to the Indians already. Was it really improper to report the first U.S. bombing of Communist positions in Cambodia in 1969, as some Administration sources have alleged? They argue that the disclosure bruised the President's credibility (as well as that of the Cambodian ruler of that period, Prince Sihanouk, who had tacitly approved the bombing). But the suspicion arises that the Administration was mainly concerned about reawakening the outrage of its war critics at home...
Excluding an approach merely because it has not yet answered the important questions it has asked is absurd at best. At worst, it smacks of ideological bias to ignore an approach which shakes deeply held beliefs...
STILL, in a University beset with political problems, few people, if any, have charged that the system contains any political bias. Radicals like Herbert I. Gintis say that radical theses receive high honors. But he explained that the system is biased toward certain forms of academic discipline. An accepted mode of academic work usually receives some form of magna, while an experimental thesis runs the risk of offending its reader...
...East Pakistan. He quoted WASAG Chairman Kissinger as saying that President Nixon wanted to "tilt" toward Pakistan. Administration officials were both furious and embarrassed that such secret discussions had become public knowledge. But neither the Indians nor their supporters in Congress were surprised by revelations of a pro-Pakistan bias in the White House...