Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard (CLUH) to investigate Downing's action. Julia L. Shaffner '90, CLUH's president, said the group would probably "make a bit of a fuss about [the incident]," and might "go to the administration to try to get some guidelines drawn up on free speech in a public context on campus...
...because it represents an attitude held by editors and reporters who should know better. They have created two standards in their newspapers and broadcasts: one for real news, in which "a little mud on somebody's shoes" is treated like a little mud, no more, no less, within the context of that person's life and work. Then there are the values of the gossip/celebrity press, a netherworld of journalism in | which flacks and hacks operate in a manner that would never be tolerated in the rest of the paper or broadcast. Fairness, accuracy and balance are abandoned...
...most important of all, giving credence to information that might be contrary to a reporter's preconceived notion of the story. Real life is about gray; it doesn't usually follow the trajectory of the gossip chroniclers: soaring careers one day, plummeting fortunes the next. Real life is about context, and so is real journalism...
...some local communists say they can see a justification for Stalin's measures. "We uphold Stalin," says Lawrence. "He made some very serious errors, but he did them in the context of trying to implement communism...
...organizations have been accused of hazing. I further asserted that this may be the reason why presidents of eight Black fraternal organizations recently proposed that the pledge process be eliminated entirely. In her article, Ms. Nguyen excluded three important words from my quote and in the process misconstrued the context of my comments...