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Political bias is only one element of the unchecked-error syndrome. Another could be labeled the pseudoauthoritative dodge. Washingtonian, a prosperous, glossy monthly, does an annual salary survey. This fall's version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME staffers were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they...
...tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling "a Racial Equivalence Scale, showing the minimum number of people who had to die in airline crashes in different countries before the crash became newsworthy . . . One hundred Czechs were equal to 43 Frenchmen, and the Paraguayans were at the bottom." Such bias seems widespread. Fleet Street reporters have traditionally voiced, in a blatantly racist and jingoist phrase, the equivalence of "1,000 Wogs, 50 Frogs and one Briton...
...word "mafioso" to describe a member of a criminal organization displays the very kind of bias your review purports to loathe. It perpetuates the insulting and degrading view of Italian-Americans as godfathers and hit-men. And while I do not deny that a small minority of Italians belonged to violent criminals organizations, I challenge Mr. Troyer to name one ethnic group which has not produced a criminal...
There's Washburn, he of the 470 SAT scores, who could not identify the country north of the U.S. There's McQueen, who weeps as his roommate has to read him the newspaper account of the death of his good friend Len Bias. There's Avie Lester, the acne-ridden reserve who releases the frustration he builds up sitting on the bench by pummeling teammates in practice...
...book, the story of a season of discontent, is where Golenbock excels. There are a few flaws, however: he does dwell unnecessarily on Valvano's coaching deficiencies, which are numerous but hardly immoral; and he also inserts a three-page chapter devoted solely to relaying rumors that Bias' died from smoking a crack-laced marijuana cigarette, not from snorting cocaine. Interesting, but irrelevant and unsubstantiated...