Word: tokenisms
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There’s no denying that Al-Jazeera has some severe problems with bias that affect the way it presents the news. By the same token, it’s hard to blame the station for sharing the partiality of its viewers who tune in everyday. It’s a proven fact that people the world over tend to consume media that share their own personal opinions. A pro-democracy, anti-Israel Lebanese person watches Al-Jazeera for the same reason a pro-life, pro-Bush Texan watches Fox. Al-Jazeera has to cater to its viewership...
...step up and adopt a more responsible policy than “out of tailgate sight, out of mind.” It’s time for those folks in University Hall to take a realistic view of the situation and enact policies which, rather than being token jabs at the perceived problem like the keg ban, actually show some regard for student safety...
...classrooms, a laptop tucked under one arm, to face six university professors. For the next three hours, he parried questions about his recently completed Ph.D. thesis: Agrarian and Rural Development as a Strategy to Eradicate Poverty and Unemployment. "We thought it was just going to be a few token questions," says Yudhoyono adviser Rachmat Witoelar. "He was, after all, probably going to be elected President in a few days. But they really grilled...
...Most members of the search committee are men, and they’ll often bring in a token woman candidate after they’ve decided to hire somebody else,” one signer of the letter told Science...
...token conservatives in the back spice things up a little, sparring with Lapham over the late Ronald Reagan’s popularity. The rest of the audience, a veritable Greek chorus of liberals, verbally rushes to defend its oracle...