Sentences with phrase «ideological interest groups»

Most Fact Checkers are in reality political operations, supported by and for political parties or ideological interest groups — they are not interested in informing the public about the issues they check but only rather in supporting or tearing down the sources of the «fact».

And there is direct evidence (and volumes of it, at that) that this denialism is supported and nurtured by a deliberate, sustained PR campaign funded by economic and ideological interest groups.

The case might well have focused narrowly on whether a movie produced by an ideological interest group should be covered by the provision designed to regulate corporate - paid ads on television.

Not exact matches

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

I find myself turning off news programs when I feel that all I am hearing are the prefabricated ideological sound bites of spokespersons from interest groups.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

It would be interesting to know, and perhaps some discoveries will be made that will allow future New Testament scholars to identify these competing ideological groupings.

Present an injustice or atrocity in a way that appeals to a combination of perceived self «interest, ideological fit, and group superiority, and all classes of human beings, regardless of intelligence, educational level, or social position, will likely embrace it.

Gradually, the NDC is abandoning its core ideological value and becoming a pragmatic coalition of interest group just like the NPP.

Today, Renzi's PD is a (not particularly comfortable) home for a number of ideological and interest groups, frustrated activists and local leaders exerting a strong micro-level power (Calise 2013).

'' The people belong to many varied interest groups — religious, ideological, political and social — and you are the father of them all.

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

Groups have been abusing public disclosure laws, the legal defense fund said in the amicus brief, «to harass scientists whose findings — or entire fields of study — they perceive as threatening their financial interests and ideological beliefs.»

This approach WILL shut down the anti-science blogs, the special interest groups and the ideological cabals that fund and support this «business model» of deceit and manipulation of the general public.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

But other groups advocate for nuclear and they have interest on the ideological level and the financial level on these issues and you can't make generalizations and they are complicated and there are situations where there might be a clear conflict of interest.

In a number of interesting ways, I think that poses one of the bigger ideological barriers to getting these groups to develop broader and more diverse alliances and memberships.

Interest groups and experts across the ideological spectrum described the EPA's proposal yesterday as groundbreaking.

In this connection, it has been noted above that group care challenges some typical American ideological notions, but success is also an American value; to the extent that we can demonstrate effective work, the pragmatism that seems to be part of our national character can prevail to rekindle public interest and support.