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...thought teachers were fair in discussing debatable questions: 26% thought they showed bias; the rest qualified their answers or didn't know. Most skeptical of teachers' fairness were college graduates...
...newspaper publishers expressed their views in their editorial pages, and in their cartoons-notoriously the least influential portion of modern papers. Those publishers who grew heated in their partisanship-and many did in the last week of the campaign-showed their bias in the slant given their headlines and in the relative space and prominence given news favorable and unfavorable to their chosen candidate. Decisions about space, position and headlines can never be anything but matters of editorial discretion. In some cases conscious, in more cases perhaps unconscious bias last week distorted the use of this discretion...
Reporters, like publishers, are subject to bias. The lack of bias in most political stories was partly a tribute to the honesty of the working press. In part it was accountable to the fact that reporters had an opposite bias which canceled out with that of their publishers. (Last week, in Manhattan, pickets marched through Times Square with placards proclaiming that the Times and also the Herald Tribune would be for Roosevelt if they let their employes decide their policies.) But this fact was also a tribute to publishers who were quite willing to tolerate opposite opinions on their staffs...
...Professor Edward Potts Cheyney, Penn's official historian: "While New England Congregationalists frequented Yale, and Unitarians Harvard, and Presbyterians of the middle States came trooping to Princeton and Dickinson, Baptists to Brown, Anglicans to Columbia or William & Mary, Pennsylvania in the proud isolation of her freedom, from religious bias found virtue, as usual, its own somewhat cold reward." But in 1828 a Yale graduate...
Calm and reasoned argument, replete with facts and figures, seasons the pages of opinions and accordingly the views expressed will obtain a much more favorable hearing than had they been clad in the devil-angel garb which not infrequently characterizes "magazines with a bias...