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...that I can look back upon [my own] ate homework hours, without prejudice or bias, I realize that too often the cause was a disinclination to tackle a disagreeable task...
...news so highly that at times its spare, fact-packed stories are downright dull to read. Thus it was something of a surprise to 500 newsmen gathered in Atlanta last week for the annual A.P. managing editors' meeting to hear the A.P. accused not only of bias but of left-wing bias at that...
Hazen suggested that the bias which he found in the dispatches stemmed from A.P. reporters who were members of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild. But Hazen's charges got no support from the other editors. When the Indianapolis Star's Robert Early asked for the appointment of a committee to check A.P. stories for possible bias, the majority of the editors agreed with the St. Louis Star-Times's Norman Isaacs who denounced the idea. Said Isaacs: "The effect of such would be an SS committee peeking over the shoulder of every A.P. man in the country...
...assuredly not a Republican, but I do insist on a modicum of fairness. That modicum the CRIMSON may have possessed formerly, but certainly now, wallowing in misconstruction and bias, the CRIMSON has lost any claim to intelligent liberalism, and all claim to any sort of idealism. Charles MacVeagh...
...able young member of the faculty was submitted on the basis of questionnaires completed by less than half the members of his course. Among the missing were thirteen out of a total of fourteen "A" students, whose reports might have altered the report's entire tone. This sort of bias, of course, can work in both ways. A course with which I was associated received gratifying high praise. Those teaching it would be only to happy to believe that the Guide's hosannas were voiced by the massed phalanx of student opinion. But the questionnaires returned came from less than...