Might this kind of compensation lead to soft reporting by fans?
Al Jazeera, for example, was generally seen as supporting the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya but was accused of soft reporting on the government crackdown on the uprising in Bahrain, a neighbor to Qatar.
The public, meanwhile, has been numbed by the soft reporting from the TV networks, which have leaned heavily toward the Microsoft PR litany.
The state legislature in its vast wisdom raised salaries, a cache of hidden money (dating back, I'm told, to the early '90s) was discovered at the state parks department, deceptive PR and soft reporting created the false impression that the high-speed rail program would be paid for out of the state's general fund.
(14, 19, 21, 25) Three of the four trials(14, 19, 21) reported not more than one person died in each group, and the SOFT study(25) reported four and three persons died in each group, respectively.
On the other hand, the observations on flexural yielding behavior of columns reported potential soft story collapse.
The commercial real estate market, hit hard by a tide of business failures, remains soft, the report said, leaving agents with a large excess supply.
"It was an egregious incident in news management," said one of the sequestered reporters, CNN's Walter Rodgers, at the time, observing that the Pentagon was trying to reduce coverage to "soft feature reporting" and turn reporters into "propagandists".
PAGE A8 Hiccups in Economic Growth Soft economic reports are raising doubts about the vigor of the recovery in the United States.
We've been cheated by America," says Rahumalar Thiruchchelvan, 52, a Tamil woman who joined the walk in protest against a probable softer UN report.
