Fairness A fair-minded reader of Times news coverage should not be able to discern the private opinions of those who contributed to that coverage, or to infer that the newspaper is promoting any agenda.
Any fair-minded reader might come to the same conclusion, whatever his or her views.
No fair-minded reader could deny the radiant panache, ingenuity and exuberance of Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence.
Atkinson may be too chary of praise here, but any fair-minded reader will certainly be prodded to rethink the matter of Patton's reputation.
I hope that a fair-minded reader will conclude that what I wrote was consistent with the UN approach on which I was at the time focused.
As the fair-minded reader will note, the scholarly function of this linguistic column during a presidential campaign is to examine, with scrupulous nonpartisanship, the roots of its catch phrases.
In my regular job — as The Times's standards editor, dealing with ethics rules and journalistic conflicts of interest, among other things — I often put this test to myself: If a fair-minded reader knew everything that I know about the background of a particular situation, would I feel perfectly comfortable with what we've done?
Her two central characters are Mr Putin himself, whose cloyingly insincere public utterances and occasional mistakes she describes with savage glee; and Ramzan Kadyrov, a thuggish and volatile pro-Kremlin Chechen warlord (now the republic's president), whom she describes repeatedly and bravely as a "lunatic .But her judgments are so sweeping and harsh that the fair-minded reader may flinch a bit.
His rendition of Arab-Jewish history is so one-sided that any fair-minded reader must conclude that Mr. Abbas is more interested in grandstanding than in recognizing a homeland for the Jewish people alongside a peaceful homeland for the Palestinians.
Oh yes, he's full of faults and yet I think any fair-minded reader who applies to Isherwood the very approximate demands of life and not the overly exacting standards of fiction will have to admit that he or she has seldom spent so much time with someone so generally admirable.
The book is full of intrigue and revelations that should make any fair-minded reader cringe at what the CIA has done in our name over the years.
