Word: proportionately
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New evidence that readers agree came last week, when the Times Mirror company published the latest installment of its "People, Press & Politics" survey. Two-thirds of the 1,501 Americans polled by the Gallup Organization said journalists had gone "too far" in reporting the Hart-Rice story. The same proportion...
No hard-and-fast rules could ever gain unanimous backing from individualistic reporters, but the time is at hand for testing predictable, if rough, new boundaries. Stephen Hess, a Brookings Institution scholar who analyzes the collision of newsies and pols, thinks a "self-correcting mechanism" is beginning to work, by...
Even if an accusatory story is both relevant and accurate, fairness demands that it be presented with a sense of proportion. Joe Biden's plagiarized material and his inaccurate description of his law-school standing pass the relevance test for a number of reasons, including his claim to high idealism...
The 411 Asian-Americans who applied early this year make up 20 percent of the early pool, nearly the same proportion as last year.
When Don Simpson checked into Tucson's Canyon Ranch Spa last year, he figured he needed to knock off a dozen pounds. The co-producer of Flashdance, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop knew he "had a tendency to gain weight" after each movie. Still, the string of megahits had...