Word: dismissiveness
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...that is indeed so, one might be tempted to dismiss the story of Brook's career as just so much irrelevant nostalgia. That, however, would be a mistake. Brook's tale of small-town weekly newspapering has lessons for everyone--from the grandest of metropolitan daily editors to the lowliest of small-town weekly readers...
...most important lessons, says Burr, is to avoid suicidal head-to- head confrontations with the big carriers. Still, collisions seem inevitable. "As much as we would like to dismiss these pesky little rascals," says John Pope, president of United Airlines, "we realize that they are a phenomenon that will not go away...
...research avalanche makes no distinction between George Romero and Ken Burns in attributing crime to TV mayhem. Nope, violence is violence -- and Looney Tunes, with 1.33 violent acts a minute, is four times as bad as MTV, with only .33. Bugs Bunny creates sociopaths? "I don't want to dismiss cartoon violence," the Senator says...
Pursuing these high-impact, hot-button stories can pose dangers. For one thing, there is the tendency to overdramatize and oversimplify. The most notorious example was the rigged crash test of a GM truck on Dateline NBC. Though many network executives dismiss the incident as an aberration, it is symptomatic of the pressure to make stories that sizzle. "The constant race for ideas leads to a tendency to sensationalize and blow things out of proportion," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center...
...right-wing opposition to her nomination gathered force, the Administration tended to dismiss the criticism as no serious threat to confirmation. At that point, however, the White House would have needed to mount a concerted campaign to get Senate support for Guinier or cut her loose quickly. But the White House, distracted by troubles with its budget package, dithered. The Administration failed even to introduce Guinier to Senators, a job black lawyer and former Transportation Secretary William Coleman took upon himself to do. Such neglect hardened Guinier's resolve and sense of independence. By the time Clinton realized Guinier...