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...liberal tilt" does exist in the personal views of a majority of newspapermen, according to Public Opinion, a scholarly bimonthly published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. The magazine cites a Los Angeles Times poll matching what newspaper journalists think on a wide range of issues with what the public thinks. Noting the differences, Public Opinion asks, "Does it matter?" It concludes from the same poll, "The public gives the news media high marks for professionalism, fairness, accuracy and reliability, and people perceive no serious left-wing bias in the material they see and read. Bias is not a major...
...shape the empire's future. To watch the original documentary (which accompanied 28 Up in its New York City premiere) is to be charmed into suspending awareness of the depressing trajectory of British life since then. The succeeding films follow that arc; they might be called 14 Perpendicular, 21 Tilt and 28 Down. Taken individually, the interviews have their flashes of cheer and wit. But in sum they suggest accommodation to life's dreary compromises at an age when one might hope for a lingering anarchic impudence. The 28-ers do not strut or rage or tease; they seem already...
...with Gramm-Rudman, the cuts proposed by Gorbachev seem to have an easy and automatic simplicity, but the plan ignores the hard and complex choices that will have to be made down the road to preserve the delicate nuclear balance. Indeed, the initial reductions in strategic weapons would tilt the balance dangerously in the Soviets' favor. In addition, the whole scheme appears to hang on a condition that Gorbachev knows Reagan resists: U.S. abandonment of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, whose goal is to develop a defensive shield against nuclear missiles...
Despite the positive tilt of her message, Menendez says she was “absolutely surprised” by the selection of her speech...
...dismayed by some of al-Jazeera's shriller broadcasts, started replacing members of the seven-member board of directors with reformers favoring a more straightforward approach. The board ousted founding al-Jazeera managing director Mohammed Jassim Ali, a Qatari who championed al-Jazeera's aggressive style and anti-Yankee tilt. As al-Jazeera executives see it, the channel needs to be more in tune with the demands for democracy and reform that are in the air throughout the Arab world...