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...think that one of the misconceptions is that our press...is objective, and that isn't the point of the freedom of the press," Boyle said. "There will always be a bias...[but in the U.S. the guarantee of freedom] means that the public is confronted with many different biases...
...senior year, the editors referred to the residents as "little Podhoretzes" whose land-holdings in Latin America are only outnumbered by their investments in South Africa. I personally am getting a little tired of it, and I wish the staff would be at least more subtle in their bias, if not less biased at root. Paul T. Keenan...
...inventors of this Southern primary were Democrats who reasoned that their party's inability to win the White House in four of the past five elections was rooted in the process's bias toward more liberal venues. They wanted the South to have a voice -- and they succeeded. Although Tennessee Senator Albert Gore is only a sometime Southerner, he is distinctly more centrist than the two front runners in his party. His strong performance last week gives him a chance to capture the nomination, or at least the second spot. The region's views will certainly be heard...
...also recommended explaining to children that cultural messages in the media reflect only the values of the people who wrote the material and do not reflect reality. He did not advocate censoring or condemning sexist material but said that the bias should be explained as one person's interpretation...
...death of Basketball Star Len Bias after a cocaine overdose caused a national outcry. Last week another death became an even more chilling symbol: the brazen assassination of Police Officer Edward Byrne, 22, a New York City rookie cop guarding the home of a Queens resident who had complained about cocaine dealing in his neighborhood. A gunman fired five shots into Byrne's parked squad car, breaching a line against the deliberate killing of police that even the Mafia usually respects. An army of 10,000 lawmen, some from as far away as Texas, attended Byrne's funeral in what...