Word: partisanship
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Topics under consideration will include the question of the place of partisanship in the defense program; participants will also argue whether the program undermines our democratic institutions, and whether capital and labor can both make equal contributions towards solving the problem of rapid armament...
...civil liberties, said, "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper." But the press of 1807 was not the press of 1940. U. S. newspapers in Jefferson's day were mostly organs of partisan vituperation and vilification owned or subsidized by political leaders. The partisanship of the press in the campaign of 1940 was mostly of another order...
...newspaper publishers expressed their views in their editorial pages, and in their cartoons-notoriously the least influential portion of modern papers. Those publishers who grew heated in their partisanship-and many did in the last week of the campaign-showed their bias in the slant given their headlines and in the relative space and prominence given news favorable and unfavorable to their chosen candidate. Decisions about space, position and headlines can never be anything but matters of editorial discretion. In some cases conscious, in more cases perhaps unconscious bias last week distorted the use of this discretion...
...Will TIME maintain, for example, that it is simply partisanship on the reader's own part which reads into the "Presidency" column a consistent thread of sly cynicism, imputing an oiled, opportunistic hypocrisy to President Roosevelt's every act and statement? Whereas Mr. Willkie is categorically declared to be "honest," and is invariably presented in the colors of a plain blunt man (with some few endearing foibles to be sure) yet withal a disinterested, liberal patriot...
President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York to do"). But the President's added comment was, although oblique, much stronger...