Just the Facts How Objectivity Came to Define by David T.z. Mindich PAPERBACK

Just the FactsHow \""Objectivity\"" Came to Define American Journalism\nAuthor(s): David T.Z. Mindich\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814756140, 978-0814756140\nSynopsis\nDraws a history of journalism's most respected tenetobjectivity\n 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.\nDespite its position as the orbital sun of journalistic ethics, objectivityuntil nowhas had no historian. David T. Z. Mindich reaches back to the nineteenth century to recover the lost .