Word: err
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...err is human enough, but those in the news business should never do it. This is the stern thesis of a Washington-based organization called Accuracy in Media, and it is wielding a potent weapon to challenge any miscreants: the advertisement. Founded three years ago on a nonprofit basis, AIM operates with a volunteer staff of 30 and a modest budget of $15,000 in contributions. It seeks out errors in news reporting and commentary, requests retractions, then buys ads to publicize the mistakes if they are not corrected...
...protect its reputation for accuracy, RFE's broadcasts, if anything, err on the side of caution. When reports of Alexander Dubcek's ouster first came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe...
Though health information sometimes is presented badly and tends to err on the side of overoptimism, no useful purpose is served by the Blue Cross scattergun blast. The fact is that the quality of health information provided by the lay media has improved over a quarter-century at least as much as health care has. At any rate, whether health information is accepted or retained depends less on the source than on whether the audience is motivated to be receptive...
Although Presidents have been sadly surprised by the performance of some of their appointees (most notably Dwight Eisenhower by Warren and Theodore Roosevelt by Oliver Wendell Holmes), Nixon seems far too conscious of just what he wants in a Justice to err in selection. One likely choice: Virginia Representative Richard Poff, 47, a political conservative who is highly respected by his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee for his legal competence. Poff would not be eligible if Congress had passed a bill he had introduced in 1963 requiring Supreme Court nominees to have spent at least five years...
...begins the book with a meditation on death and ends it with an affirmation of life. It is the terrible prospect of death, says Rosenzweig, that has driven philosophers to so many explanations of "the All," the totality of being and existence. But most philosophies err one way or another, he complains, by trying to explain man and the world as part of God, or God and the world as creations of the mind of man. Rosenzweig insists that "the All" is not one but three essences, primordially and intrinsically separate: God, man and the world...