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...months pass by, the reporters tire of campaign's sameness, and seek the unusual. They pounce on blunders, magnify the trivial and sometimes distort as much as they clarify. For this they may be understood but not wholly forgiven. This election year has witnessed press criticism of a campaign alternatively termed petty, banal and issueless; the irony is that the objects of criticism were often of the media's own creation...
...continue to include spots focusing on Carter's record as Governor of Georgia and his supposed tendency to waffle on the issues. During the debate Ford attributed the narrowing of Carter's lead in the polls to the fact that the Georgian "is inconsistent" and "tends to distort" the truth. Ford's suggestion that Democrats have kept unemployment low mainly by getting the U.S. into wars was the kind of statement that could persuade Carter to reassess the wisdom of traveling the high road...
...language courses where lectures are devoted to special presentations and discussions peripheral to the course matter, a single text may be the sole source of information on a subject. In the less exacting social science and humanities courses, a book selling a certain point of view may color and distort a student's perspective in a field to which he plans to devote his entire life. Despite all the sneers, chuckles and snide remarks from students who discover their professor's books on the list, the books penned by course teachers--whether required or supplemental--always leave empty shelves...
...tactics used by the union, however, are not the main issue here. Unions often tend to distort or color the truth in their organizing drives; in the case of the employees organizing under District 65, operating as they are without Harvard's superior resources, propagandizing often becomes a necessary, if non-ideal, fact of life...
...fundamentally different District 65 organizing drives at Harvard; nor does the letter even tacitly acknowledge the fact that the workers themselves originally invited District 65 to the Harvard campus and are themselves fully in control of the unionizing drive. To say that "District 65" drafted the newsletters is to distort patently the actual situation...