Avoid biased reporting. Avoid bias in your reporting. A person might be biased. A person cannot be bias.

Bias is a noun.

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Dean Jones Dead: Disney Actor Was 84

“The Love Bug” was one of the movies that the kids asked for over and over. I didn’t mind watching it with them, becuase Dean Jones, Buddy Hackett, Michelle Lee, and David Tomlinson did such a good job carrying the story. Dean Jones, the affable actor who starred in such classic Disney family comedies as…

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Is this Wonka's factory, or the presidential picnic @setonhilluniversity ?

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Friday night. What am I doing? #partylikeaprof

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