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 c…
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 c…
Describes how nineteenth-century American journalists established the goal of objectivity as the professional standard, even when adhering to it limited or distorted the information provided, and how objectivity failed when facing issues such as racism.