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...Liberal Bias...
...Siege, like Costa-Gavras' other work (Z, The Confession), is angry all right, and with cause, but it is also unnecessarily emphatic, too easy and simplistic, and stylistically jazzy past the point of stridency. His movies are like glossy international versions of Dragnet, with a rather different political bias. Like the dauntless Jack Webb, Costa-Gavras employs a sort of arhythmic, staccato editing and prominent, even aggressive music (by Mikis Theodorakis) to punch the movie along, giving it a kind of spurious suspense. His characters are mouthpieces, not people, repositories of conflicting political attitudes. In State of Siege they...
...Frankel, this is supposed to give judges necessary leeway to fit the punishment to the offender, not merely to the crime. In fact, however, it allows "sentences to be 'individualized' not so much in terms of defendants, but mainly in terms of the wide spectrums of character, bias, neurosis and daily vagary encountered among occupants of the trial bench." For a given defendant, then, his sentence depends less on the demands of justice than upon which judge he draws...
...those elitist Eastern radical intellectuals who distort the news. Then Clay T. Whitehead, director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House, opened up and has yet to quiet down. A recent sample: "Station managers and network officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or consistent bias from the networks--or who acquiesce by silence--can only be considered willing participants, to be held fully accountable by the broadcaster's community at license renewal time...
...choice of what is to be funded and 2) what is scheduled over the interconnection system which links all public TV stations, whether or not it has CPB funds in it." Under the new agreements, when it comes to supervising or trouble-shooting any problems in production, i.e. editorial bias or misreporting, CPB now has ultimate power while PBS is merely responsible for running equipment...