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With its meritocratic bias, our industrial civilization has emphasized the acquisition of information; thus our exploitation of machines that increase either transmission or reception has always been remarkable. Americans hailed the early typewriter as the bringer of universal literacy and world peace; our predictions about telephones, radio, film and television have been similarly cosmic. American Utopias, as in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, gloried in a world linked by instantaneous communications; current proponents of cable television see this form as the solution to a remarkable medley of social ills...
Fussell's class bias is the only flaw in his otherwise brilliant analysis. And whether or not you believe that World War I has a unique and monolithic legacy for our way of seeing things, it has certainly reinforced certain modes of perception. War is one of the few experiences that whole cultures can share. In the past ten years, we all shared Vietnam by watching it on television. We saw it in a heap of bodies at Mylai, in the naked girl running down a road crying as napalm burned through her skin. But, as Fussell says, our culture...
...next morning I woke to read The New York Times, and was somewhat startled to find in bold-headlines--"U.S. Champion Accuses Judges of Bias--Ponders Retirement." Tom called at noon to say that since the night before had produced little sports news of national worth, our story had mushroomed to lead status throughout the country...
They also encourage students to be discerning and to recognize an author's bias. A spin-off of LAC-10, a reading-writing course, is also well attended. While TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce sat in on a class last week, students were asked what came to mind when presented with each of several different adjectives meaning fat. Sample answers: for paunchy, "beerbelly"; corpulent, "overweight but dignified"; fleshy, "yuck, flabby"; burly, "a lumberjack or truck driver"; roly-poly, "funny, clownlike...
...less obvious bias of The Crimson lies in the article's reference to Cuban "volunteers" fighting in Angola. The word "volunteers" seems to imply some sort of loose group of individuals who are motivated by their own belief in the righteousness of their cause. It is hard to see how this is the case with the Cubans in Angola. Cuban Premier Castro did not publicly announce that Cubans were fighting in Angola until January 15, 1976, so it seems doubtful that Cuban individuals were able to volunteer to help the Angolans before even knowing that such an option was available...