Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, in retrospect, the agents were guilty of "erroneous human judgment," as Montoya termed it. Moore's futile last-minute attempts in three telephone calls to reach the agents again on the morning of the shooting make the agency appear to have been lax. Yet Moore on each call apparently expressed no urgency. In one call at 8 a.m. she reached only an answering service, and on the other two calls she reached low-level clerks who were wholly unaware of who she was or what she wanted...
...Judgment Day arrives on Saturday and for those few who braved the night the Gates of Fenway will embrace them in all their splendor...
...ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah remain as mute evidence of the judgment of God on this...
Moreover, when journalists begin substituting other considerations for their own honest news judgment, it is impossible to know where to stop: they open themselves to all sorts of pressures, both from Government and private groups. Warned Shannon's colleague William Safire: "The news has its own free market, and if editors put their notions of the public interest ahead of their responsibility to satisfy the public's interest, a vital freedom would be lost." Most of their peers would see no irreconcilable conflict between freedom and responsibility. Says Norman Isaacs: "There must be a sense of discretion...
...have aided the accused. As E.J. Kahn puts it in The China Hands, his sensitive, knowing account of their ordeal, "Few had ever been so mightily damned by nasty people and so meagerly defended by nice ones." Nasty or nice, honest men could disagree about the China experts' judgment, but it was their loyalty that was frenetically attacked. They were railroaded out of the Foreign Service, or at best shunted off to obscure posts far from Asia. Their salient fault was to have reported on China as they saw it: America's ally, Chiang Kaishek, looked to them...