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...question being asked in Manila is whether the President, who has already begun to speak of the anti-impeachment vote in the Batasan as a mandate for his policies, will in fact call early elections. Opinion is divided, but leaders of the dozen opposition parties say that in the event of a snap election they are prepared for a showdown at the polls, where their candidates garnered one-third of the vote in the 1984 national assembly elections. Their major challenge will be to unite behind one candidate. Aquino's widow Corazon could pose the most serious threat to Marcos...
...liberal tilt" does exist in the personal views of a majority of newspapermen, according to Public Opinion, a scholarly bimonthly published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. The magazine cites a Los Angeles Times poll matching what newspaper journalists think on a wide range of issues with what the public thinks. Noting the differences, Public Opinion asks, "Does it matter?" It concludes from the same poll, "The public gives the news media high marks for professionalism, fairness, accuracy and reliability, and people perceive no serious left-wing bias in the material they see and read. Bias is not a major...
...regular part of the curriculum in public schools. According to a TIME poll taken by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., 78% of Americans respond yes to the question "Do you favor sex education in the schools, including information about birth control?" And yet, despite the majority opinion, the subject of sex education remains a divisive one. On one side are those like Wattleton of Planned Parenthood who argue that Americans should learn to accept adolescent sexuality and make guidance and birth control more easily available, as it is in parts of Europe. On the other side...
...Independent News OhMyNews International english.ohmynews.com This English-language version of the Korea-based "open-source" news organization invites readers to become "citizen reporters" and contribute their own news stories, opinion pieces and photo essays. ("Say bye-bye to the backwards newspaper culture of the 20th Century," beckons the membership registration page.) Use the Talk Back forum to upload...
...Politics Public Agenda www.publicagenda.org Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts public opinion surveys on a variety of hot-button issues, interprets mainstream views and then compares them with the political rhetoric on the right and the left. The site's Issue Guides cover dozens of topics, from abortion to immigration to the right...