Sentences with phrase «media flareups»

But the crew is getting too unwieldy, and if backstage reports and social media flareups are to be believed, too full of big star egos to keep on this track.

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They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

The Gallup survey was conducted from March 5 - 8, after the recent flareup in the blogosphere over George Will's columns challenging scientific and media accounts of impending climatic catastrophe.