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Strongly biased (all but the first pro-Republican): New York Post; Buffalo Evening News; Chicago Herald-American; Minneapolis Star (whose publisher professed belief in news "without bias or slant or distortion or suppression"); Boston Post (whose major efforts during the period were the championing of Senator McCarthy and the denunciation of the Boston Public Library for housing Russian literature); Detroit Free Press (which at the end of the period said it was "proud of its long record of unbiased coverage of the news"); Indianapolis Star; Los Angeles Times; New York Daily Mirror; New York Daily News (whose president said...
TIME chose to use an old wives' slant in reporting this story: the bad father who once committed murder passes an inherent urge to kill on to his son. Bunk! How outdated! What juicy food for the hungry minds who love to believe such nonsense...
Nowadays movie stars come equipped not only with gowns by Adrian and makeup by Westmore but with insight by Freud. Nobody talks more about Kim's suffering psyche than Kim herself. She has given hundreds of interviews with a couch-side slant, readily analyzes "my inferiority complex" and "my insecurity" and, digging back, rattles on about her childhood as if she were the only adult who ever...
Fuss v. Muss. The Hillcrest Country Club accepts new members only from applicants who filed before Jan. 1, 1952. When the Hillcrest case came before the city council, it met dezoning requirements by having a reported 95% of surrounding homeowners signed up with drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...
...spirit the theme was presented. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Birth of a Nation is based a good deal on fact; the South was terribly oppressed after the war, and the K.K.K. did begin as a messianic organization. But like Miss Stowe, Griffith selected and shaded his facts to slant his subject; the Negroes especially suffer under his direction: with the exception of a few loyal, sensitive family retainers, all Negroes are coarse, crazed, slovenly animals. In conveying the impression that people are the same now, Griffith's Reconstruction becomes an actuality in 1915. It is laughable, but a little...