Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have said many times this year, starting back in October, we are especially concerned about binge drinking, and drinking to such excess that students' safety and good judgment are impaired," he said...
That was all the endorsement most journalists needed to hear. The Times wields so much influence as the paper of record--and has a reputation for being so conservative in its news judgment--that few reporters could justify holding their own stories while checking out all the details. And even those who did produce more balanced pieces only seemed to reinforce the impression that something really big had happened. Wire services ticked off the highlights. Television anchors and radio announcers provided the sound bites. And the tabloids dutifully served up the tearful stories of cancer patients desperate to try anything...
...they are, a judgment Faye makes with scandalous bias, they get her whole deal. New names, new resumes, new life stories. There is no charge but the life you walk in with, because that person is ended forever, and a new one rises up and disappears into a network of safe houses and churches, zigzagging away from dads and police and private detectives. A blond might become a brunet. A long-haired girl might become a short-haired boy. It takes months, sometimes longer, before you can stop and blend in somewhere, unreachable, unrecognizable. And then...
...husband's urging, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, dosed with Thorazine and given shock therapy. When she got out of the straitjacket, she dumped Jones and married a fellow patient with a drinking and gambling problem. She apparently hadn't yet developed her keen knack for character judgment. Faye lost custody of Michelle in court because she was certifiable now, tagged with crazy papers for life. But you don't put a foot to Billie Faye's neck without her biting your leg, so she grabbed Michelle and ran. The hell with the courts. She ran for Michelle...
...trees like that translate into jobs for loggers. When the Eureka Times-Standard, the local paper, printed stories about Butterfly last month, it was showered with complaints. "We write about rapists, but it doesn't mean we support them," huffed editor David Little in a column defending his news judgment. "Lighten up, folks. A woman is living in a tree. Isn't that the least bit interesting...