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...Pronouncements tend to show that "big business" will be served up as the piece de resistance next fall. The alleged laxity of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, and the protectionist bias oft Tariff Commission provide traditional issues with social implications wider than the mere corruption charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN NOVEMBER COMES | 2/23/1926 | See Source »

...important as giving political accounts an equal chance with those of the criminal is the need of freeing news from editorial bias. Amidst the cross purposes of advertisers, parties and causes, this requirement is an ideal doubtful of realization. Although unwarrantedly bitter, Upton Sinclair of "Brass Check" fame has shown beyond possibility of a libel charge that the opinion of all papers save a chosen few are definitely dominated by the influences of corporation and business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESSED FOR AN OPINION | 1/30/1926 | See Source »

...formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory, it doubtless omits many books of great merit; includes several that are trivial because of some personal bias; and possibly omits several of importance for the same reason. With this apology ended, I shall proceed to wander through a list which is by no means in order of merit, or in much of any other order...

Author: By John Clement, | Title: Is America Imperialistic? --- Outstanding Books of 1925 | 1/16/1926 | See Source »

...your issue of Sept. 28, you say that a woman cannot run as fast as a man because of the shape of her pelvis. Is this news? If you are going to state a fact as old as humanity you might at least state it without bias. I refer you to any competent medical authority for information as to what would happen to humanity if the female pelvis were of the same form as the male. The ways of the Creator are not the piddling ways of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...bias, no human being is without it, and the bias of TIME is to be inferred from the associations of its owners as well as its choice and treatment of news matter. The only assurance of a minimum of bias is in the editorial control of a superior judicial mind animated with zeal for ideals set forth by your advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Incomplete | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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