Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Adam Sandler is notoriously press-shy. He doesn't like critics, he doesn't do interviews, he doesn't want to be analyzed, dissected, uselessly praised or arbitrarily condemned. But Adam Sandler, fortuitously enough, also likes college students. After spending the last two years mired in various movie and music projects, Sandler finally has enough time to tour around the country and visit with the audience he cares about most. Adam Sandler is notoriously press-shy. He doesn't like critics, he doesn't do interviews, he doesn't want to be analyzed, dissected, uselessly praised, or arbitrarily condemned...
These inexusable errors speak to the inevitable conflict between accuracy and timeliness in news reporting. Both are desirable in a well-functioning and responsible press. Timeliness does not necesarrily result in inaccuracy but the race to break the news before other media venues made last night's election coverage an example of how the two conflict...
...Press--had declared Bush the next President of the United States. Bush was ahead by 30,000 votes, according the networks, which called the race...
...With Florida dragging us down into electoral purgatory, the country doesn't seem to know what to do with itself. Pundits have run out of adjectives and family-friendly exclamations. Newspapers have gone to press declaring Bush the winner. (Doesn't anyone teach the lessons of "Dewey Defeats Truman" in journalism school anymore...
...press time, the Green party had pulled down 3 percent (or 2.5 million) of the popular vote nationwide, while Gore and George W. Bush remained divided by a margin of less than 200,000 ballots. Across the country, disillusioned Democrats, liberals, environmentalists and trade union members stuck to their guns and voted for Nader, ignoring entreaties from former compatriots scared out of the Nader camp by the specter of a Bush presidency. Gloria Steinem and Melissa Etheridge, once Nader supporters, reversed course in the last weeks before the election, and campaigned mightily for Gore. And while their efforts, as well...