Just the facts : how "objectivity" came to define American journalism / David T.Z. Mindich.

If American journalism were a religion, as it has been called, then its supreme deity would be "objectivity." The high priests of the profession worship the concept, while the iconoclasts of advocacy journalism, new journalism, and cyberjournalism consider objectivity a golden calf. Meanwh...

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Main Author: Mindich, David T. Z., 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1998.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Objectivity -- Detachment: The caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivitiy's primordial soup -- Nonpartisanship: Three shades of political journalism -- The inverted pyramid: Edwin M. Stanton and information control -- Facticity: Science, culture, cholera, and the rise of journalism's "native empiricism," 1832-66 -- Balance: A "slanderous and nasty-minded mulatress," Ida B. Wells, confronts "objectivity in the 1890s -- Conclusion: Thoughts on a post-"objective" profession. 
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