Word: opinionizing
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...opinion, your article on smokeless tobacco [MEDICINE, July 15] was short on facts and long on emotionalism and innuendo. You totally ignored the large body of public testimony by eminent medical experts about the lack of scientific justification for health-warning labels on the products. I thought it was unfair and unbalanced reporting of a complex and important issue. TIME readers deserve better. Louis F. Bantle, Chairman U.S. Tobacco Greenwich, Conn...
...Public opinion on an array of specific social issues has not changed noticeably in recent years: 55% oppose making abortion illegal; 60% favor mandatory handgun registration; 75% are for the wider use of the death penalty; 69% favor a constitutional amendment permitting prayer in the classroom. The general mood of the nation may have grown more conservative in the '80s but, evidently, activists on neither the right nor the left have had much success in altering American thought on these crucial matters of our time. --By Jacob V. Lamar...
...produced is that I was wrong when I said the NYT didn't mention Dale Earnhardt's death on the front page the day after his death. There have been novels and Broadway plays written about Ann Coulter's one mistake, which was pretty minor IMHO [in my humble opinion]--the Times article DID begin: 'His death brought a silence to the Wal-Mart...
...standards. Its format?from the way participants are selected to the way questionnaires are worded?adheres closely to the rules of the "Deliberative Poll," an approach to public consultation devised by James Fishkin, a professor at Stanford University. Fishkin originally developed his poll to measure and promote informed public opinion in the U.S., but he is in Zeguo at the behest of its Communist Party secretary, Jiang Zhaohua. The two met at a conference in Hangzhou in November and struck a deal in which Fishkin could test his model's applicability to China and Jiang could get what he describes...
...positive social change and awareness. Rather than seek mutually beneficial dialogue or intellectually rigorous discourse that would result in an increased, more holistic, awareness, radical students, who I am ashamed to call my peers, engaged in counterproductive debauchery. The protestors’ actions demonstrated a disdain for diversity of opinion, and as a result, the incredibly disruptive protest was a step backward for progressive politics at Harvard. Unfortunately, the previous leniency of the administration with regard to more tasteful student protests will surely regress...