Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fashionable to be a press-shy celebrity - to bemoan the loss of one's privacy while simultaneously courting the cameras at movie premieres and fashion shows. But Sade comes by her press shyness honestly. On the Chris Rock Show, she just sings her song and never says a word. Like a comet making its celestial rounds, she appears in the star-studded celebrity heavens infrequently and almost only when she has new songs to perform...
Weisberg's feature is a particularly pointed example of a genre of opinion journalism which has reached its height in the modern press' critique of government in general and the portrayal of our 2000 presidential candidates in particular. Under the guise of determining the candidates' "character," article upon article has forgone empirical defense or attack for a far more troubling series of far-reaching generalizations about the candidate as a human being...
Clich: The integrity of the press depends on its keeping a clear line between editorial and factual content. Opinions, like this one, must be carefully labeled and set aside so that the reader may rest assured the rest is fact. Often, it is precisely the guise of unbiased reporting which skews the truth in problematic ways. Currently, though, the average American--watching 30 minutes of evening news each day--will have, as regards the candidates, little truth to skew...
Massachusetts law provides that reports of rape and sexual assault are not public documents. If police find a suspect in the case, they will discuss with the victim whether she would be willing to press charges...
...lower turnout will favor Bush, according to Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Thomas E. Patterson, because a disproportionate number of people who do not vote are low-income members of the Democratic base...