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...case, the Bush White House's public relations have been clumsy and dumb. There's a cheerful tendency to walk into doors. There's a strange inability to foresee trouble, to repair public misperceptions, and to mount articulate counterattacks. Republicans cannot blame it all on the liberal bias of the media...
...months of criticism that the FBI had dismissed warnings of a mole in its ranks right up until they tripped over Russian spy Robert Hanssen, an agent for 25 years. Last month the bureau announced a mediation agreement with African-American agents in a long-running class action charging bias in promotions. Last year there was the relentless pursuit of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who spent nine months in jail after an immense FBI mole hunt, only to be released by a judge who said his imprisonment had "embarrassed our entire nation and each...
...subjects shouldn’t go unnamed, where their identities are relevant to readers and shouldn’t be obscured. A process that requires editors to pick and choose which subjects are sympathetic—which deserve protection and which do not—would invite journalistic bias...
Though the committee was concerned their affection for Tilghman might cloud their judgment, they took many precautions to avoid such bias, and according to Wright, “they actually held her to a higher standard...
...Anyone gone for the weekend or camping out in the Yard, for that matter, was not part of that population. The January 2000 poll, in contrast, surveyed people on campus immediately before or during finals. The two populations surveyed may also differ because of “nonresponse bias.” In last week’s survey, just 62 percent of the random sample replied. Before generalizing their responses to Harvard students, we need to know whether the 38 percent who did not answer differ systematically from the respondents. Survey research routinely compares the respondents with nonrespondents...