Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sen. Clifford P. Case (R.N.J.) predicted last night that "the rise of the Republican party from the ashes in which it now lies will be as spectacular as its defeat last week...
...supporters say, that biased reporting has hurt Sen. Goldwater during the campaign. At least one election-year practice of the press, however, has helped the Republican nominee...
...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, or they run under one large headline, with smaller "dropheads" indicating which story is about which candidate...
Under this system small day-to-day inequities are taken for granted. The other day, for instance, Sen. Goldwater's statement that he would cut back our crash program to put a man on the moon got the drophead treatment in most papers, although President Johnson had merely spent another day promising to be President of all the people and worrying about the button...
...assumed that over the course of the campaign these little discrepancies will even up and the candidates will receive equal treatment. This year, because of a tactical decision of Sen. Goldwater's, this has not been true...