Word: unpopularities
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...Carter, the convention's chief value was the opportunity that it gave him to explain, promote and in some cases defend his policies. Particularly crucial for the President is winning Democrats' support for the unpopular spending cuts he feels must be made in the 1980 budget to help control inflation. "We will balance those sacrifices fairly," he promised. "If we err in this balance, it will be on the side of those who are most in need...
Presumably, the majority next year could refuse to take ads from all those political candidates it does not endorse, as well as ads from the John Birch Society, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party and numerous other exponents of unpopular philosophies. Having decided--contrary to all established principles of journalistic ethics--that sale of advertising space is tantamount to endorsement, it still might have a little difficulty separating the claims of free speech from those which are, supposedly, incorrect in their views. We hope that it might reconsider its stand in the near future, before reality intrudes--because these situations...
...philosophy rather than his actions, one which relies more on the vague notiom of "of- fensiveness" of the advertiser's thinking than on traditional criteria of the injustice of his or her deeds. It is the type of thinking that could easily be translated into a means of censoring unpopular beliefs, without having to face the rigorous test of proving a specific, correctable injustice. It is a dangerous way for a newspaper to think...
Kathleen Duey '79, president of the club, defended the decision to invite Nixon. "Of course he'll be controversial, but in order to be fair, we shouldn't consider the fact that he's unpopular in giving him a forum," she said yesterday...
...Russians clearly expected that Reed would be convicted, thereby justifying their charge that the U.S. crushes dissent. Unfortunately, the jury acquitted Reed and his codefendants. The singer himself hailed the verdict as a "courageous and unpopular decision." The Soviet press reported the acquittal but then fell silent-presumably waiting for another victim of American injustice...