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...want to take a position, even in my own mind" on elections. (To which I say, Anyone who can perform that kind of self-hypnosis should get into the lucrative smoking-cessation business.) More commonly, reporters vote but keep it to themselves. At the New York Times, even opinion columnists are forbidden to endorse candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Full Disclosure | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...bogus concept of neutrality (that people can be steeped in campaigns yet not care who wins) and the legitimate ideal of fairness (that people can place intellectual integrity and rigor over their rooting interests). Voting and disclosing would expose the sham of neutrality-which few believe anyway-and compel opinion and news writers alike to prove, story by story, that fairness is possible anyway. Partisans, bloggers and media critics are toxically obsessed with ferreting out reporters' preferences; treating them as shameful secrets only makes matters worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Full Disclosure | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Opinion is not itself dangerous. Hidden opinion is, as is journalism slanted to reflect it. I've critiqued Obama's campaign videos favorably but also criticized the press for its swooning coverage of him. I don't know if that makes me fair. But you can judge for yourself, and you should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Full Disclosure | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...children - that there is nothing that requires the state to aggressively go after people. Indeed, the education department (which is not involved in the lawsuit) will not want to waste their resources going after such parents, despite the "illegality" of their actions, leaving the Second District Court of Appeals opinion of the law unenforced. "This particular family [involved in the child abuse case] is going to be in jeopardy if they lose," Sugarman said. "But everyone else can go on their merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Resists Home School Ruling | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...wouldn't be commissioned until after elections. (Brown inherited the job between elections, after Blair resigned.) A subsequent "significant swell of public support" for Brown triggered the request to Downing Street, says Lovett. That's a rare mismatch between Tussaud's own soundings and the wider world view, because opinion polls reflect no such swell - Labour, under Brown, has actually lost ground to the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearful of Waning, Gordon Brown Seeks Waxing | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

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