Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force, deployed so that no one can leave the press area unnoticed. Onscreen, the Secret Service is out of position, and the Air Force personnel have disappeared completely. The real plane has fancy flares and infrared devices to deter a missile attack--much more effective than the chaff, intended to confuse radar, used in the movie...
...standards cannot be seen as a legitimate way to separate those deserving summa cum laude designation from their undeserving peers. There is just not enough integrity in the difference between an A-and a B+ in Expos to make this distinction more important in separating the wheat from the chaff...
Kudos to Krauthammer for presenting the novel idea that facts, not propaganda, should be promulgated by the press. Journalists who have no apparent problem sifting the wheat from the chaff on all topics--domestic and international--seem to suffer selective blindness when the subject is the Middle East. Israel is always in the wrong, the Palestinians always right. No matter that Israel is the only country in the region that is a democracy, with a free press, that 30-odd Israeli political parties express every shade of opinion from the far right to the far left, or that no political...
Moving the ministries didn't grow Khrushchev any corn or wheat. For Rudenstine, shuffling the departments will beget him only chaff...
...members of what Newsweek's Meg Greenfield calls the "politico-journalistic elite" enjoy. I'll admit the possibility that I'm not asking the right questions of my interviews or understanding the full meaning of their replies. But seasoned reporters tell me that wading through ten minutes of "squishy" chaff to get a few sentences of pith isn't an unusual experience here...