Word: complaints
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...similar complaint is being heard today. This time it is the developing nations of the Third World that claim to be the victims of biased and inadequate news coverage. And this time one of the accused is Cooper's own A.P., along with other Western-based news agencies that keep reporters abroad. These organizations, say Third World officials, monopolize the flow of news in much the same way that Western industrial firms dominate markets. So Third World countries are demanding U.K. endorsement of a "new world information order" to correct imbalances in the distribution of news...
Perhaps the Third World's most accurate complaint is that the West dominates the world flow of communications, principally through the hegemony of the so-called Big Four (A.P., U.P.I., Reuters and Agence France Press). A study this year of 14 Asian newspapers made for the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University showed the Big Four accounted for 76% of Third World news in those papers. Western dominance, however, is more a matter of economics than conscious conspiracy. International cable rates discriminate against small national news agencies and other low-volume users...
...implication of Mr. Rosenthal's charge is even more disturbing. Why would he write something to the Crimson that is so blatantly false? I suppose he felt that since he could not see Dean Allison just when he wanted to, it was OK to complain and to make his complaint vivid by crafting an exaggeration and attributing it to me. Elise Renoni Secretary to the Dean
While wage and price guidelines attracted the most attention, Carter was well aware of the complaint by businessmen and some economists that the Federal Government is the biggest single contributor to inflation. With pride, he pointed out that his Administration had reduced the federal budget deficit, a prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan...
...billy clubs like cattle prods, the guards warily circled Henry, poked the knife out of his hand and forced him to the ground. They then took him off to jail; later a magistrate sent him to St. Elizabeths Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. He never did get to voice his complaint to the President...