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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.

Not exact matches

In other words because FOX has been so successful at caterring to a particular political ideology by chosing bias stories and presenting stories more geared toward a certain group «we're going to do it too».

Biased in favor of one or another ecclesiastic outlook at times, this civil religion can also at times be biased on behalf of the political statuBiased in favor of one or another ecclesiastic outlook at times, this civil religion can also at times be biased on behalf of the political statubiased on behalf of the political status quo.

The second step looks more closely at moral relativism, at political correctness, post-modernism and media bias.

And, accordingly, can be perceived as playing upon the emotional fears and biases of their constituents for their own political benefit at the expense of the very constituency who might elect them.

David Cameron wants the BBC charter reviewed every five years instead of ten, presenters» salaries will be made public, the BBC will be prevented from showing popular shows at popular hours, more moves will be taken to stamp out supposed «political bias», the BBC will be forced to put out all production contracts to competitive tender, effectively privatising it from within.

Those who disagree with what she has fought for — namely equal marriage, the campaign against FGM and work to reduce gender and racial bias — are merely taking an easy shot at a political opponent.

The findings do point to the power of facial expressions in transmitting bias, but that doesn't mean they reflect people's actual viewing habits or their responses to the full shows in their real context, says Diana Mutz, a professor of communications and political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

«We found that, apart from slight biases at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, people in Oklahoma — a state where the concept of «global warming» traditionally gets quite a chilly reception — readily perceived feedback from the climate system.»

A co-production of leading indie studio A24 and Amazon, the six - episode series is a satirical mashup of tropes aimed at our collective nostalgia, political biases, and misguided nationalism, with a solid stream of self - aware idiocy that keeps the show from becoming an obnoxious lecture on patriotism.

Meira Levinson, a political philosopher and faculty member at Harvard, details an approach to addressing race and bias in the classroom in her book No Citizen Left Behind.

One of the reasons investors tend to invest most of their money at home (home country bias) is because they feel comfortable with their knowledge of the political climate.

I thought the works were expressing a «political correctness» in that they appeared to have an ethnic bias... at least the works I wandered by... lots of blacks and people of color portrayed.

In all the talk, at least one political issue seems to have been passed over: the group's gender bias.

One is that of the medias reporting on sciences that have a political bias and will and need to influence politial decision making in that it must be argued on both sides regardless of the scientific appraisal and position in the subject at hand.

statements along with the scientific observations show that the IPCC is not off the mark (at least towards alarmism) due to any political biasing.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

In an earlier email, Balderson's legislative aide provided Gentil with a copy of a deeply flawed and biased study by Strata Policy and the Institute for Political Economy at Utah State University, both of which have funded by the Koch brothers.

Don't believe anything you read; Question everything; Be especially suspicious of numbers; Know the source and political bias; If you're affected by the story get at least three other sources; Remember all government information and data is biased; Be especially wary of stories that cite authorities.

In an earlier email, Balderson's legislative aide provided Gentil with a copy of a deeply flawed and biased study by Strata Policy and the Institute for Political Economy at Utah State University, both of which have

However, there are many political conservatives who do not have that bias (including at least one very great contributor to SkS).

The whole point of the scientific process is to move beyond, as much as is humanly possible, the political and cultural biases that every human being has, and to instead encourage rational, objective analysis of the evidence at hand.

Our children must not be isolated from the real world, historical or present - day, but equally our children (or those in maintained schools at least) must be protected from bias and indoctrination on political issues.

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.

Rix LJ cited with approval a passage in De Smith's Judicial Review (6th edition, 2007, at paras 10 - 065ff) and headed: Policy and Bias, which noted that decision - makers are entitled «to exhibit certain kinds of bias in the exercise of their judgment or discretion on matters of public policy» and while ordinary members of legislative bodies are «entitled, and sometimes expected, to show political bias» they of course ought not to show personal bias or participate in decisions on a matter in which they have a private pecuniary or proprietary interest.

Contrary to what we've seen happen with emergency contraception, political bias has no place at the FDA.