Jesuit leader decries threat of US-French intervention in Syria

This is what you call jumping in:

CWN (Catholic World News) – September 04, 2013

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The worldwide leader of the Jesuit order has said that US-led military intervention in Syria would be an “abuse of power.”

Father General Adolfo Nicolas said that action by the US and France would “certainly increase the suffering of the citizens of that country, who, by the way, have already suffered beyond measure.”

He added that the proposed military action was based on incomplete information about the use of chemical weapons.

Income inequality, not growth? What’s in a question?

From smartertimes.com a look at bias:

The Times has been running a series of questions and answers with the New York mayoral candidates that is unintentionally illuminating about the bias of the Times newsroom (not the editorial board, since this seems to be a newsroom project.)

Today’s three questions “about the economy,” for example, includes “What measures would you support to address income inequality?” but no question about economic growth.

An earlier installment featured three questions about “public health”; it asked about sugary sodas and birth control in schools, but no question about what, if anything, the candidates would do to try to reduce the number of abortions in New York City.

The bias isn’t particularly in how the Times reports on the answers to the questions, but in the framing and choice of the questions themselves. [italics added]

Same for coverage. Facts straight (not all the time), but about what? Choosing what’s news and what isn’t is the best criterion of bias.