Is it possible to remain impartial and demonstrate a commitment to the job of reporting or is a certain level of bias unavoidable?
It can be a challenge for scientific advisors to extend the same commitment to impartial evidence to the management of the research system that they bring to other areas of policy.
For one thing which has not, and will not, change, is the BBC's commitment to impartial, balanced journalism.
Writing for SCOTUSblog, the President made clear that he will nominate someone "eminently qualified," who brings "a commitment to impartial justice," and, critically, whose "experience that suggests he or she... grasps the way [the law] affects the daily reality of people's lives in a big, complicated democracy, and in rapidly changing times".
"However, maintaining our editorial integrity, and our commitment to broadcast impartial and independent news, will always take precedence over commercial goals".
The church's credibility regarding its commitment to an impartial investigation suffered a fresh blow last week when the bishops canceled an independent study into the abuse scandal amid allegations by the independent investigator, Christian Pfeiffer, that the church was censoring information.
The complaints by the prosecutor, Mustafa Khater, have raised some of the most serious questions to date about the Morsi government's commitment to the impartial rule of law, as well as about its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group whose political arm the president once led.
These special-tie commitments appear to be unavoidably in tension with any commitment to any impartial justice norms (Scheffler 2003).
Impartial academic research is difficult.
Impartial, free and fair.
