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Last month America, influential Jesuit weekly, announced a Bias Contest, with cash prizes for readers who found the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in a month's reading of the U. S. press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest...
...only advice was that the group "proceed as impartially as possible and adhere to discussion of principles, as free from personal or political bias or partisanship as possible...
Increasingly in recent months, an especially vigilant section of the vigilant U. S. Catholic press has accused much of the U. S. secular press of a bias on issues affecting Catholicism. In particular, the coverage of the Spanish war by such newspapers as the New York Times infuriates Catholic publicists. In America, sharply-edited Jesuit weekly, Rev. 'John A. Toomey, S. J. lately urged that Catholics bring their national organizations to bear on offending journals. Father Toomey pointed out that Jewish issues are never misrepresented for long in the U. S. press, in which Jews are important advertisers...
Last week America announced a "Bias Contest," with Father Toomey among others in charge, in which $50 in prizes will be awarded to readers culling and commenting upon the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means...
Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...