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...Credibility Gap...
...world far more attractive than the real one. Such an escape from reality was the recent blatant Nasser-Hussein lie that Anglo-American planes helped Israel. Arabs believed it because it could have happened: Arab truth is meant to be only approximate or potential. There is no credibility gap among Arabs, so long as a statement, however fantastic, fits in with what they want to hear. "Everyone knows that Jews cannot fight," Arabs explain. "Therefore somebody else must have fought for them...
...Justice Department has proposed voluntary guidelines modeled on a system used in Omaha. At the outbreak of a riot, police relay a "Code 30" to newsmen; they, in turn, hold up riot bulletins for 30 minutes-usually enough time for lawmen to establish control. During the news gap, police provide at least as much information on the riot as newsmen could gather in so short a time. The Justice Department has also asked for less inflammatory language in riot coverage and greater care in substantiating the facts...
Well aware of the gap between the scientific and nonscientific communities -the "two cultures," as British Physicist and Author C. P. Snow calls them -politicians, educators, TV producers and scientists themselves have been trying to bridge it. No emissary to the nonscientific world has been more successful than a highly articulate biochemist named Isaac Asimov...
...output. No matter what approach one brings to the work, there is a shift of tone between the first four acts and the fifth. The material for a black-comedy interpretation is undeniably present in the text; when it is tapped to the hilt, though, the ines-capable gap now becomes a gulf...