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...behind the astounding poll released by the E.U. last week, which shows that six out of 10 Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea and Iran. The results, said European Commission President Romano Prodi, "point to the continued existence of a bias that must be condemned out of hand." He might also have asked whether Israel has become the über-Jew, a legitimate target where individual Jews are not. There is a quip ascribed to the Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex: "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," meaning that Germans...
...independence we have." Publishers and journalists can't look to the courts for redress either. In the rare cases when a court does rule against the government, the decision is often ignored. After an administrative judge ordered that the Daily News should be allowed to reopen - citing bias on the part of the agency in charge of media registration - the police closed the paper down again as soon as the first issue hit the stands. They also arrested four of the paper's directors...
...real problem for film studies at Ivy League institutions, I think, is a bias on book culture,” Rentschler says...
...beyond developed ability used to be considered noise that disrupted the clear sound of a score. Psychometricians try to screen out all kinds of noise--questions that ask about subways, for instance, could be excluded because rural kids may not be familiar with them. Questions showing even the vaguest bias are excised; you will never find a woman measuring cups of flour in an SAT question. The concern is that girls who read such a question will be distracted by the implicit sexism, and so their answer will reflect not their ability but their distraction--that's noise...
...panel, which was moderated by Director of the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy Alex S. Jones, also discussed bias in the media’s political coverage and what they described as President Bush’s ignorance of public opinion...