Talk about a civics lesson: A high school senior has raised questions
about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen's criticism is well founded.
The complaints varied from questions
about political bias in the civil service to the very timing of the referendum itself.
When it comes to cable news networks like CNN, D'Alessio believes the disproportionate coverage of Trump's campaign was less
about political bias and more a factor of Trump's own expert manipulation of the modern media landscape.
Not exact matches
«There's a lot of partisan
political white noise out there
about Pete's supposed «
bias,»» Montoya said.
It pretty much wiped out any normalcy
bias about what to expect from our
political or economic systems.
The business world wants to see tax reform become law, but business - owner talk
about tax cuts is shaded by
political bias.
«Earlier this year, we shared more information
about Trending in response to questions
about alleged
political bias in the product.
Republicans are expected to be more reticent
about privacy regulations, and may use the hearings to raise suspicions of
political bias on the social network.
Broadcast
bias resulted in significant national misperceptions
about a major
political policy issue — going to war in Iraq.
What
about when CNN becomes a hated minority for not reporting without
political bias?
The sheer comprehensiveness of his
political error recalls the old joke
about the bigot who denies any specific form of racial or ethnic
bias.
The article goes into detail
about how some well - known stories have spread and is well worth a read, particularly the questions it raises
about the role of
political journalists in passing stories along and
about the
biases and distortions that these new outlets can introduce into the process.
I didn't write it specifically
about political apps (rather,
about Facebook's structural
bias against «useful» apps in general), but it applies to them as well.
Still, Mr. Brafman added, «in today's climate, defendants facing
political corruption charges must be concerned
about potential juror
bias that may be based more on perception than fact.»
The FBI has «grave concerns»
about a GOP - penned memo that alleges
political bias within the bureau, officials said.
There is much talk in
political circles
about correcting the
biases and prejudices of the past.
My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony
about the possibility of social -
political issues involving
bias.
Or you come to school one morning and the principal wants to see you because a parent of one of your students has accused you of
political bias because you taught what scientists agree
about: that the Earth is getting warmer, and human actions have had an important role in this warming.
My point was that the non-scientists Will and Crichton should be listened to because they are giving testimony
about the possibility of social -
political issues involving
bias.
And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a
political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more
about global warming than climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.
They may not have known
about the
political agenda when they were inveigled into participating, but they had to know when the 1995 SPM was published because Benjamin Santer exploited the SPM
bias by rewriting Chapter 8 of the 1995 Report in contradiction to what the members of his chapter team had agreed.
If you believe or even care
about Penn State's white wash of Mikey Mann you probably believe CBS's «investigation» that concluded that Dannie Rather and Mary Mapes were 100 % free of
political bias in either case you're beyond gullible and entering the area of willful blindness.
For example, if you agree that people of all ideological and cultural and
political stripes are vulnerable to identity - oriented «motivated - reasoning,» then what do you think
about articles that finger point
about about the
biases among «liberal» scientists even as the
political orientation of the author is dismissed as a potentially relevant factor?
Given what seems to be the overall appearance of
political bias at NPR from failing to tell the complete story of the global warming issue — a problem I first mentioned in 2011 here — there might not have been any need for Michael Oreskes to quash negative stories
about his sister.
It isn't enough to talk
about tribes and
bias but then go through every possible language contortion to avoid what the IPCC base
political culture is that unifies the tribe in that unnamed
bias agenda.
How
about JFK was murdered by a Communist Allende was a KGB agent The IRS Is specifically targeting conservative organizations The vast majority of academics are on the
political left Fox news was the least
biased US broadcast news channel in their coverage of the 2008 and 2012 elections
Well, according to Charles Taber and Milton Lodge of Stony Brook, one insidious aspect of motivated reasoning is that
political sophisticates are prone to be more
biased than those who know less
about the issues.
Lawyers were upset, understandably, as there were legitimate concerns
about political partisanship generally, but also
about the appearance of
bias towards any of the historically marginalized or radicalized groups that the presidential candidate had made offensive comments
about.
Perhaps the week's most buzzed -
about employment law case came from Hartford where veteran
political reporter Shelly Sindland filed a sex and age
bias complaint against Tribune Co.'s Fox 61, charging that execs at the TV station rewarded female on - air talent on the basis of bodily attractiveness rather than conventional journalistic criteria.
An excellent discussion of these systemic
biases can be found in an article by the prolific writer Ida Abbott (www.idaabbott.com/publications/articles) titled «How
Political Dynamics Undermine Gender Balance in Law Firm Leadership and What Your Firm Must Do
About It.»
Firstly, the information
about media outlets is borrowed from Wikipedia, which, though it is commonly considered as an authoritative website, is still crowdsourced, which does not guarantee immunity from
political, or other,
biases.
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