Just the Facts : How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism / David T.Z. Mindich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mindich, David T. Z., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Objectivity--United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Meanwhile, a groundswell of tabloids and talk shows and the increasing infringement of market concerns make a renewed discussion of the validity, possibility, and aim of objectivity a crucial pursuit. Despite its position as the orbital sun of journalistic ethics, objectivity-until now-has had no historian. David

Contents:

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

Notes

Bibliographic essay

Works cited

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-194) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814764152

0814764150

9780814763094

081476309X

OCLC:

779828468