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Adam S. Cohen's review of The Pope's Divisions: The Roman Catholic Church Today by Peter Nichols was so blatantly anti-Catholic that I have no choice but to respond. Mr. Cohen reveals his bias immediately when he says, "the book's dust jacket...features two Catholic clergymen praising the book's analysis," and implies 'we should therefore conclude the book to be full of lies. Apparently Mr. Cohen still views the Church as a bunch of sinister wizards plotting to take over the world from the Vatican, a view which even most Protestant fundamentalists no longer hold...
McCarthy and the Press maintains that the American news media have improved since the 1950s. McCarthy's manipulations showed that reporting only what was said to the press and not what might have been the truth often led to bias and misinterpretation. Newspapers are no longer so vulnerable to sensationalizing slander, Bayley says. Thorough and effective news analysis no longer gets relegated to the editorial pages. The popularity of televised news has left investigative reporting as the "meat and potatoes" of print journalism. Increased staffs and decreased competition have allowed newspapers greater opportunity for research and more discretion about what...
Watt, 43, has managed to keep the full backing of the White House on matters of substance, though not of style. In seeking to redress what he calls the "environmental extremist" bias of the past, he has alienated not only liberal environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club but such conservative organizations as the National Wildlife Federation and the National Audubon Society. Even the Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Reagan's candidacy and his pro-development policy, has called for Watt's resignation...
...Canada, leaving ten, and reduced employment from 107,000 to 83,000. He slashed plant capacity, in part because he believes that tire sales in the foreseeable future will not return to the levels set during the early 1970s. Reasons: radials wear much longer than bias tires, and auto production is unlikely to reach its prior peak levels...
...primary season. Many have argued that a delegate selection process beginning in January with the lowa caucus and ending in June with the California primary is too long. They cite exhaustion of candidates, boredom of the public, the expense and divisiveness of a prolonged campaign, and a bias in favor of candidates who can devote themselves to campaigning full-time for an extended period...