Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue states "The person who reads this newspaper religiously (as it should be read);" as if this of any other political organ has anything to do with religion. The editorial goes on to say, "the purpose of publication was and is to present political news without a heavy partisan shading." That is, to say, with only a light partisan shading. Another editorial says "We serve two masters," the Republican party and Harvard...
...such thing as true objectivity in handling the news. The job, as he sees it, is "to know one's own prejudices and try to do the best you can to be fair." He admits to open violations of the CBS policy, notably in some sharply partisan See It Now shows on civil-liberties issues. The climax was the McCarthy show-and an uproar that produced 50,000 letters, phone calls and wires (four to one for Murrow, by CBS's count). In defense of such violations, Murrow says that "most of the time" he has forthrightly identified...
Manhattan-based Gossipist Miller's ineffable tastelessness sparked the sharpest rebuke ever dealt a reporter by the Eisenhower Administration. But the slur that caught Hagerty's eye was not inspired by mere partisan malice. In recent months, Miller's column has unstoppered fetid allegations about Adlai Stevenson that make the Nixon item seem fragrant...
...directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush-and-gilt partisan Bing said with a shudder: "The sacrifice you make here is glamour. I believe New York still wants its opera glamorous...
Thus the 85th Congress was shaped almost entirely by partisan politics...