Word: panderer
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There are better ways to ease the minds of wary travelers than to pander to the call for racial profiling. We can tighten airport security in visible but equitable ways, so that fear won’t drive the 38 percent from New Jersey to wish racial profiling upon others. Such measures will require small sacrifices in privacy and convenience, but better to sacrifice those than our commitment to principle...
...truth that musical inauthenticity is indistinguishable from what is genuine, anyone with good looks, flashy outfits and enough studio crafting can become the darlings of the rock community. So although MTV is the machine of culture and music, and to be heard and sell records one must pander to its penchant for dumbness and beautiful young popstars with lipgloss, New Order have managed to find a way to be commercially viable while retaining artistic integrity...
...Simpsons and Philosophy is actually the second title in the publisher’s Popular Culture and Philosophy series. (Volume 1 was called Seinfeld and Philosophy; Volume 3, forthcoming, is entitled The Matrix and Philosophy.) The book is a shameless attempt to pander to all the intellectuals and psuedo-intellectuals who recognize and celebrate the sophisticated and slapstick comedy of “The Simpsons,” but it is more of a general(ly mediocre) survey of various philosophical concepts that can be projected onto the show. We get essays by random associate and assistant professors of philosophy...
...grossly inapplicable to wider social issues—Bok underplays the negative influence of television, for example. The role of government in determining quality of life is large, but not quantifiable; if children fight with their parents, if pop music has become derivative and commercialized, if Hollywood films pander to our baser instincts while better movies are made in Europe, our government is partially to blame. Bok’s attempt to quantify its role in these things fails, but when he is confined to a less overarching set of problems, he has some very interesting things...
...media goes beyond portraying a bunch of non-voters. Rather than approaching youth as disenchanted individuals who are otherwise serious, the media paints young people as irresponsible and out of touch: Generation Y, as in why bother? The reaction of campaigns to this message has been to try to pander to youths' perceived greed for entertainment. After watching the WWF wrestler "The Rock" introduce House Speaker Dennis Hastert and seeing Gov. Jesse Ventura flaunt his feather boa, few can question the image of politically irresponsible youth. Thus the media's message has become ingrained in our political culture...