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An edition of Just the Facts (1998)

Just the facts

how "objectivity" came to define American journalism

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If American journalism were a religion, then its supreme deity would be "objectivity." Although it has remained the orbital sun of all journalistic ethics, objectivity, until now, has had no biographer. David Mindich here journeys back to the nineteenth century to recover the lost history and meaning of this central tenet of American journalism.

His book draws on a number of high profile cases that show the degree to which journalism and the evolving journalistic commitment to objectivity altered - and in some cases limited - the public's understanding of events and issues. Through this subtle combination of history and cultural criticism, Mindich provides a profound meditation on the structure, promise, and limits of objectivity in the age of cybermedia.

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New York University Press
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English
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200

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Subjects
Objectivity, Journalism, Journalism, united states, Presse, Objectivité, Objektivität, Journalismus, Journalistiek, Objectiviteit, Journalistic ethics, Journalism, history
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Table of 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.

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

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071/.3
Library of Congress
PN4888.O25 M56 1998, PN4888.O25M56 1998

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x, 200 p. ;
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ISBN 10
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OCLC/WorldCat
38898032
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982393
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