Word: neutralization
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...compelling news writing. Preserving impartiality in a paper’s news stories should be a primary concern for any responsible managing editor. By opting for more “artistic” devices, the AP risks losing credibility and undermines its purpose of presenting the news with a neutral, unbiased voice...
...says, ABC's Terry Moran reported that George Bush "made anti-abortion conservatives happy." Yet in 1993, ABC anchor Peter Jennings had softer language about Clinton's decision to allow such funding. "President Clinton kept a promise today..." said Jennings. Fleischer opines that the Clinton description was more neutral, whereas the language to describe Bush's action was "in a highly political vein." What Fleischer ignores is that in the same 1993 newscast he sites, ABC ran an entire separate story on the Clinton decision built around how it was political payback to his pro-choice backers. If describing...
...Fleischer-he then quotes, without irony, the President talking about the Florida recount. "If they're going to steal the election, they're going to steal it," Bush serenely said to me at his ranch the day I left Texas." "Stealing" is not, by most people, considered a value-neutral term...
Smothered by Cornell in the neutral zone and at its own defensive end, Harvard notched just three shots on target between the start of the second and the 7:23 mark in the third—precisely as many as the Big Red snuck past Crimson goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris...
Down 2-1 and with captain Noah Welch already in the box for tripping, the Crimson allowed Cornell’s Daniel Pegoraro to slip past the defense in the neutral zone and streak towards Grumet-Morris before assistant captain Ryan Lannon finally intervened. Gaining on him as Pegoraro neared the net, Lannon hurled himself to the ice and stretched out to poke the puck away before crashing into the Big Red forward’s legs, drawing a penalty from the officials...