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...original bias was to vote against this measure because I too believed that voting was a right only for citizens, but the facts got in the way of my bias. After hearing the testimonies of these people, it became clear that these people were not becoming citizens simply because of a lack of effort," Braude said...
These are opinions, yes, but more importantly, opinions unashamedly masquerading as fact; and it is this last metamorphosis that has marked this season's discussions and dissections of Character. The usual yellow journalism--facts told selectively and with an opinionated bias--has instead become a kind of soft war in which the authors' and commentators' personal feelings about the candidates are given precedence and a slightly factual spin...
...does one report and calculate character? (I exempt the immediate answer of mathematicians, who are experts at calculating characters and often construct complicated tables for this very reason.) I'm not critiquing the subtle bias of reported facts so much as their general absence. Put simply, the sheer intangibility of the issue is no excuse for an intangibility of evidence...
...suffered by the Serbs themselves. I am not a Serb but a member of the U.S. Air Force who served in Bosnia for four months. While there, I witnessed the blatant brushing aside of Bosnian Serbs' needs by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe because of political bias. The Bosnian war was a huge land grab by Croats, Serbs and Muslims; there were no heroes on any side. Anti-Serb bias in the U.S. media and in the government has done more damage to our credibility in this region than any bombs. It will take years...
...some, my opinions make me "biased." "Bias" and "objectivity" are the two most damaging words in discussions of how we think about and discuss violence and justice. Let's face it: Objectivity is something nobody is ever believed to possess and bias is something eveybody else always seem to have...