Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political life marks a moment of extreme national gravity and a danger for the republic." Added Christian Democratic Deputy Luigi Granelli: "The kidnapers have a political goal-that of destabilizing the country." To cope with what he called "war against the state," Ugo La Malfa, leader of the centrist Republican Party, urged swift enactment of special repressive antiterrorist legislation...
...candidates will be running for 491 National Assembly seats. But only those who emerge with at least 12.5% of the votes of the registered electorate in their district may enter the second round, on March 19. Then the bigger parties will begin their horse trading. Candidates from the centrist parties backing President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing have already pledged to bow out in the second round in favor of Gaullist candidates who get more votes in the first round; the Gaullists have promised to do the same for centrist candidates who beat them...
Hersant. whose dozen dailies reach one of every five French readers, has become a major power in French politics with his 1975 takeover of Le Figaro (circ. 222,900), Paris' largest morning paper. A studiously centrist bible of the bourgeoisie for its first 150 years, Figaro has under Hersant become blatantly conservative. The publisher took personal charge of Figaro's pre-election coverage, which omitted any mention of his assembly district opponent-even when the paper carried a rundown of every major party candidate-until an outcry in other papers forced Figaro to relent. Last month Hersant invited...
...only now power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down to is the call for moderation. When the press rocks the "middle" boat, it is not "objective." The radical is not "objective;" the reactionary is not "objective." Increasingly the "objective" press becomes more centrist, mainstream, homogenized and consensus-bound. And it is a strange coincidence indeed that this objectivity has coincided with the rise of corporate power in the press...
VERY FEW PEOPLE in this country are strictly middle-of-the-road, mainstream, or centrist. We are a land of independent thinkers, dissenters, regionalists, and everyone has a belief or two out of line with the political mean. When the press was more diverse, it catered to the vigorous variety of outlooks, and people felt that in an intangible way the newspaper or magazine of their choice 'belonged' to them. Now the press is viewed as dominating and monolithic, a part of a power triad with government and industry. Large sections of the population, the majority even--from moral conservatives...