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...Bias in the news media is just one of the topics covered in another article in Psychology Today, "Women Sit in the Back of the Bus," by Marie Hunt. Hunt points out that women are always viewed by the press as attractive objects rather than as skilled and effective athletes. Does that sound familiar to the Radcliffe crew or tennis teams? It amazes me how the girls can sit for a picture for Don Gillis's newscasts when they know they will be described as "pretty little misses" instead of serious competitors...
...lipped man of German descent who sought convictions with merciless persistence. And the original defense counsel, Fred Moore, was a leftist labor lawyer who sported long hair and often wore sandals to Court. Moore's appearance coupled with his constant objections to Katzmann's tactics, only strengthened Thayer's bias against the defendants...
...criteria of eligibility for the office of Supreme Court Justice. These include, we believe, a rich experience and distinguished performance in the realm of law, and qualities of mind and spirit promising a wise and fair search for the legal merits of cases undistorted by partisan, personal, or regional bias...
...Millhouse, De Antonio has employed his usual technique of matching fragments of news film with quick on-camera interviews to produce an unflattering hut funny likeness of the 37th President (whose middle name is Milhous, not Millhouse, but let that go). To be sure, De Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase, and sometimes satire descends to the level of easy derision, as when scenes of Nixon's South American visit in 1958 are accompanied by the old Chiquita Banana jingle on the sound track...
...pervasive is the American bias against the short man, Saul Feldman told a recent meeting of the American Sociological Association, that no one notices it-no one, that is, except the short man himself. To Sociologist Feldman of Case Western Reserve University, that point is well illustrated by the language. Instead of the neutral "What is your height?", the question is always the invidious "How tall are you?" Dishonest cashiers shortchange customers, and people who lack foresight are shortsighted...