Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew's most dangerous point is that newscasters ought to reflect majority opinion, rather than their own best judgment, and that this somehow would make them objective. Almost to a man, broadcasters reject objectivity as a goal and insist that they are fair. An objective man, says David Brinkley, "would have to be put away in an institution because he's some sort of vegetable." ABC Anchor Man Frank Reynolds was quoted by Agnew as saying, "You can't expunge all your private convictions," and during the 1968 campaign charged Richard Nixon with a suppressed "natural instinct...
...passes fair judgment on what he terms the neo-mystics. They seek an immediate relationship with God, or the Holy. Their joy, their communitarianism, their sense of contemplation and phantasy absolves them of their excesses in their attempts to tune in on a higher frequency. But he criticizes these bearded troubadors for copping out of a society which badly needs their other-worldliness...
...aide was talking with some marchers about the possibility that this march could end the war. "Maybe 30,000 three-piece suit lawyers marching down Pennsylvania Avenue could persuade the President to end the war," she explained, "but this parade just won't do it." You could question her judgment, but the assumption was there- only the President could...
Helpers are promoted on the basis of the foreman's judgment. "We don't care whether the helper is black or white-he's promoted because of his performance," Murphy said...
...said in Commonwealth v. Wheeler, . . . 'a physician may lawfully procure the abortion of a patient if in good faith he believes it to be necessary to save her life or to prevent serious impairment of her health, mental or physical, and if his judgment corresponds with the general opinion of competent practitioners in the community in which he practices...