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...recent tour of four South American nations. The Icelandic Broadcasting Service examined the country's economic problems and the strain they were putting on Reykjavik's coalition government. Japan's TV Asahi aired a report on the stabbing of two children by a bicyclist in Tokyo. Betraying his Western bias, CNN Executive Producer Stuart Loory, formerly the cable network's Moscow bureau chief, admits he has been pleasantly surprised by the show. "We were afraid at first we might just get talking heads and anti-American tirades," he says, "but these journalists have been taking a close, sometimes critical look...
SECRETARY Bennett, however, believes that the way to prepare this country's youth for the future is to focus them on their own past. Bennett's concepts would nourish isolationism in American students, creating a inherent bias towards Western thought and an ignorance of other cultures. Unfortunately, his position as Secretary of Education provides a podium for his reactionary plans regarding higher learning, where Bennett displays the two distinguishing trademarks of his time in office: abject denial of facts and paranoid political conservatism...
Cingiser says that the AI's inclusion of the SAT scores are unfair to poorer students who cannot take test-taking classes to improve their SAT scores. Because of this bias against the poorer Blacks, Cingiser says that many of the Black student-athletes in the Ivy League come from the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum...
...surprisingly, Waldheim has refused to cooperate or recognize the trial's validity. Gerold Christian, his official spokesman, dismisses the TV event as a "mock trial with a preconceived outcome and a known bias." That is disputed by the producers, who insist they searched as hard for evidence to exonerate Waldheim as for evidence to implicate him. Among those likely to testify, for example, is Bruce Ogilvie, a former R.A.F. pilot who claims Waldheim helped him escape Nazi execution. "Everyone knows that Waldheim has been accused," says Producer Jack Saltman, "but our program may be the only fair hearing he ever...
...prominent author and animal rights activist, Peter Singer, calls this bias `speciesism' and maintains that it is a form of prejudice no less reprehensible than racism or sexism. This is a fact which we should acknowledge, as speciesism is responsible for the suffering and death of more than 60 million animals every year through research alone...