Word: partisanship
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...final weeks of a presidential campaign can usually be counted on to generate a crescendo of press partisanship...
...room filled and midnight approached, one listened in vain for those lovably tortured strains of "Happy Days Are Here Again." In vain one looked for those portly ward lackeys with equally pudgy cigars. In vain one tried to sense the electricity of unabashed partisanship...
...what they say. The practice is ignored when one candidate says something of earth-shaking importance or makes a local appearance. But for the most part, newspapers seem to regard "fairness" in a campaign as something that can be measured in inches. The standard reply to charges of journalistic partisanship is to sit down at one's back copies with a ruler and figure out that Sen. Goldwater has received 533 1/2 inches of space since June to 529 inches for President Johnson. Equality of display is considered necessary, too; stories get similar headlines and run in neighboring columns...
...problems, too, as his opponent in this election, State Senator James W. Hennigan, has been quick to point out. ("Brooke has been more interested in headlines than real performance," Hennigan charges.) This fall strong charges of partisanship in Crime Commission affairs were levelled, after the indictment of former Governor Foster Furcolo. Last week, Furcolo charged that Commission chairman Alfred A. Gardener had violated an old "Corrupt Practices Act" that forbids gifts from state office holders to political candidates. Brooke has attempted to clear himself by pointing in another "explanatory opinion," to the fact that Gardener's $100 contributions...
Grasping the Opportunity. Through the week Humphrey carried the burden of infighting and partisanship to which he had been assigned. In Chicago, he accepted an enormous, imitation monkey wrench from the Plumbers Union, promised that he would use it "to put the screws on the Republicans." During a three-city swing through Indiana, he derided Barry Goldwater's view of freedom as "the freedom to remain un educated or ignorant, the freedom to be sick, the freedom to stay unemployed, the freedom to be hungry. Some philosophy! Some freedom!" Reacting to G.O.P. charges that his longtime association with...