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...What of the American newspapers? Upton Sinclair, of course, is ready with an answer in "The Brass Check", but perhaps it is pardonable to accept his word as contributory not final judgement. Mr. King has declared that the American press is efficient and free from bias. Of the former there can be no doubt; time and again the great newspapers of the country have astonished the American family at the breakfast table by their marvelious exploits. But it is hard to believe that the latter claim is quite true. "In America" says Mr. King in support of his contention "even...
...just returned from the countries east of the Elbe and Danube. He reports that Russian conditions are misrepresented, or at best inadequately described by the daily press of the U. S. Many news despatches about Russia emanate from border countries hostile to the Soviet Government; the false bias of these despatches is not properly discounted by American news receivers...
...definite points of view; in fact it has encouraged more and more the presentation of opinions from every angle. While this does not make demagogues or fanatics, it does exercise, in the words of Henry Adams, "a negative force of greatest value" which smoothes out the "violent political bias of childhood". It forms men with broad minds and far sight, men who "see things straight and see them whole". To keep Harvard worthy of its reputation must be the care of its officers, its graduates and its undergraduates...
...refutes these charges, and answers our question, "Harvard College", he writes, "was a negative force of greatest value. Slowly it weakened the violent political bias of childhood. Slowly he was slipping away from fixed principles; from Mount Vernon Street; from Quincy". He was drawn from the century and surroundings in which he was born, to a life free from mental bias and hereditary prejudice...
...debates thus far held, the Oxford team lost to Bates and succeeded in tying Dartmouth. Since the verdict was in both cases rendered by the audience, this record is considered good, because the bias of the audience has generally influenced its judgment in favor of the home team...