Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such? Legal frames (especially in the United States) are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved lenience with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights...
Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter to the law. There is no moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist have to his readers, or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away...
...when the Harvard Undergraduate Council liquidated itself, until last spring, student government at Harvard consisted of a wide variety of student-faculty committees. Their official powers were rather dubious, and their actual influence negligible. Student apathy was par for the course and there was no effective forum where student opinion could be gauged and acted upon. The administration assumed a paternalistic role in most affiars, denying students any significant say in the governance of the University...
These are the findings of a national telephone sampling of 1,004 registered voters conducted for TIME on Aug. 2 and 3 by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. The poll shows that if Democrats were given a choice now, 58% would pick Kennedy and 30% Carter as their nominee. The Senator also would win a three-way race that included California Governor Jerry Brown. The outcome, as indicated by the poll: Kennedy 49%, Carter 21%, Brown 19%. The support for Kennedy ranges broadly among all types of Democratic voters...
...independent vote in a three-way battle for the nomination, with Kennedy getting 48% and Carter 15%. Brown has particular problems getting the votes of blacks and women. Brown would be acceptable as President to only 36% of those surveyed and unacceptable to 34% (29% say they have no opinion about Brown). Interestingly, he is least liked in his own backyard: he would be unacceptable to 49% of those in the West...