Word: slant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...past election, American newspaper publishers achieved an unprecedented unanimity as to which presidential candidate they should sell to the public. The editorial furore was turned on, news stories were given the appropriate slant, and the methods by which to save the American way of life were duly impressed, without leaving much impression. The American people voted as they pleased, in opposition to their press; first, because they have long given up reading editorials, and second, because they have learned to be on their guard against publishers' slants...
...mischievously through vari-hued sultans' palaces, grapples with monsters, summons a towering genie, flies over the top of the world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...
...well!-it is impossible to correct all the cockeyed stories. Moreover, it is obvious your slant is friendly, so I don't mind...
Most of Osservatore Romano's war news had been printed in a column called Acta Diurna, in which squat, dark, astute Professor Guido Gonella, with a strong pro-Ally slant, digested daily communiques from London, Paris, Berlin. Editor Dalla Torre dropped Professor Gonella's column. Without Acta Diurna, Osservatore Romano came out as usual for subscribers, but the last free paper in Italy had been bottled up, almost as good as suppressed...