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Schorr does an admirable job of resisting this temptation, but at times the inevitable bias seeps through his journalistic veneer. Perhaps justifiably, he cannot avoid occasional criticisms of certain CBS superiors and colleagues, most notably of board chairman William S. Paley. His analysis of some of their actions, while often supported by evidence in the book, reveals his continued contempt for the role they played in his life...
Schorr maintains that the national media harbored little bias or animosity toward Nixon at the beginning of his administration. "The press only wanted to cover them [the Nixon administration] as we had covered other administrations," he said. This relationship was altered, Schorr added, when the White House "acted as if they were going to go after us. They created hostility and turned us against them. By declaring some of us their enemies, they made us enemies...
...intangible that's not in the statistics. It's an underlying negative bias," explains the Celtics' first-round pick in the 1970 draft. "Upfront no one's thinking about losing, but in the back of his mind, he's wondering...
Through 1975 Ritter was reversed in an astounding 58% of his civil cases, 40% of his criminal cases and 76% of his habeas corpus cases?perhaps the worst record in the U.S. He has twice been removed from cases by the U.S. Supreme Court for bias. U.S. Attorney Child, in 1,018 pages of complaints, accused Ritter of repeated misconduct, including failing to observe procedural rules, ignoring judicial precedents and ruling capriciously...
...last year at a grain harvest he was allowed to join, and even his human rights series contains kind words for the leniency with which the Chinese sometimes handle people accused of nonpolitical crimes. As for his stories about the less engaging aspects of Chinese life, Munro claims no bias other than his commitment to objectivity. "I wasn't looking for that sort of thing," he says. "It just...