Word: partisanship
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...rallies of such importance. The decision again spotlit RAI 's troubled board, whose seats are traditionally divvied up among majority and opposition Members of Parliament. Only board president Antonio Baldassarre and another center-right loyalist remain. Three others quit in November to protest Baldassarre's leadership and alleged partisanship. Sandro Bondi, spokesman for Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, said RAI's leadership is more independent than ever, though he conceded that "politics continues to influence the world of television." Those influences, says one veteran RAI reporter, include all the old tricks of warping coverage to favor the incumbents - only jacked...
Tomorrow, America will experience the election that wasn’t. The campaign season which should have been the time for all candidates to offer innovative solutions for social security, education and homeland security has instead fallen victim to a cosmetic partisanship and mud-slinging that leaves voters alienated and candidates indistinguishable...
...political side as natural; Wellstone was a politician, after all, and he cared passionately about standing up for liberal values. And with an important election tomorrow, politics is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. But still, it is disturbing that the mourners could not put partisanship aside for four hours to pay their respects, and to allow others to do the same...
...will not be weakened. We will all remember the senator as one of the few brave politicians in Washington, someone who wasn’t afraid to articulate his unique vision for a better world. One of the best examples of Wellstone’s principle and aversion to partisanship involves his relationship with Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). While he initially viewed Helms as representative of all that was “ugly and wrong and awful about politics,” Wellstone became friends with the conservative North Carolina senator after they met, and the two ultimately...