Word: mistrusting
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...things that aren't so positive. Public mistrust of the media has been catalyzed by the quintessential display of competitive fear--an election night mistake with political agency. I'm not sure whether journalistic decision-makers will actually adhere to any self-imposed guidelines to not report election results until polls close (or until votes are counted). Competition and the Internet might make that unfeasable. Would you force yourself to wait until 8 p.m. to see who wins Florida in 2004 if it was already posted on Slate.com or The Drudge Report...
...children," says Secretary Shalala. "Different people have responsibility for taking them away from their family. Another group of people is responsible for placing them." Last year the General Accounting Office issued a report on juvenile courts, finding that judges and caseworkers do not work well together. Many judges mistrust the judgment of caseworkers and order additional assessments "to compensate for what the judges perceive as professional inadequacies...
...Files, now in its eighth season, the drift had arguably already set in. It was among the most relevant dramas of the 1990s, a sleek buddy-cop variation whose conspiracy motif captured a mood of civic mistrust that ranged from Perotistas to militias. But last year the investigation by Duchovny's Fox Mulder and his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into a government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody...
Koppel, who is in his 37th year with the ABC network, disapproved of the mistrust between the press and those that they cover today...
...schools to ban in-house corporal punishment. Child psychologists and social workers expressed disappointment and surprise at the study?s findings; many believe there is a link between spanking and anti-social behavior like cheating and misbehaving. Others worry that childhood spankings enforce children?s fear and mistrust of adults, and encourage children to use force themselves...