Word: biased
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...Marquand Professor Lawrence E. Buell, the English department chair, says charges of political bias are inaccurate...
...ability to alter what we see becomes more important when the line blurs between news organizations and their business-oriented owners. Corporate-media interactions always raise questions of bias, such as when Time magazine (owned by Time Warner) hyped the movie "Twister" and other, similarly mediocre Warner Brothers movies on its front cover. We expect that when a character in a daytime soap opera uses a well-known product, it might be a product that is advertised on the network...
...suggests that Congress is intervening "on the ground of state incompetence." Such a characterization grossly misunderstands the history of this legislation, however. Congress determined, over four years of hearings, that it had two grounds to intervene in this issue: civil rights and interstate commerce. First, Congress found that "gender bias permeates the [state] court systems," contributing to "the judicial system's failure to afford protection of the law to victims of domestic violence...
...keep warplanes flying right, Air Force pilots argue that there has to be a "man in the loop"--a person in the cockpit. A recently completed investigation into a crash of the Pentagon's most sophisticated unmanned aircraft may reinforce their bias...
...this straight: The majority opinion in the age-bias case said that state hiring practices shouldn't held to the same high standards in age-discrimination cases as they would be in gender- or race-discrimination cases. Now the Court says there are no federal protections against states' gender biases, either. "This is directly in line with the legacy of the Rehnquist Court, which is a return to an emphasis on states' rights," says TIME legal correspondent Alain Sanders. "The problem with that is when balancing the rights of citizens against the rights of states, this court tends to minimize...