Word: factualism
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Certainly, by comparison to reportage in France and Italy, West Germany's coverage is more factual, if not always sufficiently careful or thorough; it is also less polemic, and less acutely polarized between journals of highbrow analysis and sensational gutter tabloids. There is a stronger tradition of investigative reporting in West Germany than in neighboring countries, though far less than in the U.S. West German reporters were encouraged to develop American-style standards of accuracy and objectivity by U.S. occupation forces in the 1940s and 1950s. Moreover, many of today's senior journalists were educated partly...
...Facts showed in 1942 that there was no threat of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast; FBI and Navy intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population was no threat; there was a complete absence of factual support for the claims of "fifth column" activity, sabotage, and signalling to Japanese ships. Instead, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told President Roosevelt that "the necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data." McCloy had no excuses because his were...
Under sharp questioning from Gallo way's attorney, Bruce Friedman, Rather was confronted with some factual errors and acknowledged a minimal effort to reach the doctor for comment. But much of the drama, and the potential consequence for TV journalism, resulted from an unprecedented judicial order compelling CBS to hand over all of its outtakes (sound and picture footage that has been edited out). As the outtakes were shown to the jury and to TV audiences watching the trial live on Cable News Network, viewers got a unique chance to see how a story is put together...
Once Heidemann delivered the diaries to Stern--which paid $3.5 million for them to persons unknown--the magazine failed to conduct even rudimentary chemical tests, and instead relied solely upon the word of several historians. And even the historians performed poorly; the volumes contained numerous factual errors that should have been sufficient proof that the diaries were fakes...
...expected his Harvard Nuclear Study Group to stop there, having provided an objective report--a handbook on nuclear issues. It would have been as he describes it in his foreword, an analog to The Harvard Health Letter, a purely factual Medical School publication. But the debate over nuclear weapons is not like the debate over cholesterol: It cannot be decided empirically or discussed in a moral vacuum. So Derek Bok much more...