Objectivity is a term that arose in the field of journalism in the early 20th century, when journalist bias first started to come into question. Objectivity appeared as an extension of the realist thought that appeared in the late 19th century. Realism presented the idea that journalists should simply discover and report the facts, and the truth would […]
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Tags: Evan Petschke, History of Journalism, Journalism, journalism ethics, Objectivity, reporting, Transparency
Tags: Evan Petschke, History of Journalism, Journalism, journalism ethics, Objectivity, reporting, Transparency
Political endorsements by newspapers: right or wrong?
Posted by: Emily Mann | November 6, 2012 | No Comment |The journalism world is a strange one. Nowadays, news organizations have created new “social media guidelines” that prevent journalists from stating anything that expresses an opinion on something. Why do we pretend that journalists are impartial robots without opinions? Octavia Nasr, former CNN Senior Editor of Middle East Affairs, was fired after she tweeted this: […]
Schudson chapter 5 – objectivity, news management, the critical culture
Posted by: kylebeaton | December 8, 2009 | No Comment |In the fifth chapter of Schudson’s book, Discovering the News, he writes of the roles of objectivity, news management, and the critical culture that arose in journalism around World War I and beyond. Objectivity Schudson details that around the 1930s, many journalists began to find fault with the ideals of objectivity and instead wanted to […]
Schudson Chapter 3: Two Journalisms in the 1890s
Posted by: britnipetersen | December 3, 2009 | No Comment |In the 3rd chapter of Discovering the News, Schudson discusses two types of journalism in the 1890’s that influenced the journalism standards we see today. These two types of journalism are “journalism as entertainment,” and “journalism as information.” Schudson starts out by asking two important questions about these two types of journalism. “What is it […]
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News of Tiger Wood’s automobile accident and the White House party crashers blanketed the airwaves and front pages of newspapers. Sure, it was Thanksgiving holiday and not much happens during that time, so media need to find something to feed the masses. Something else newsworthy happened over the same time period. The servers of the […]
To be or not to be, objectivity is the question
Posted by: richardsiemieniak | December 3, 2009 | No Comment |“American Journalism has been regularly criticized for failing to be ‘objective.’” The opening lines of Michael Schudson’s “Discovering the News.” If Lt. Colonel Slade heard those words, he would surely reply with, “This is such a crock of shit,” like he did in “Scent of a Woman” to the idea of objectivity. Michael Schudson. UCSD.edu The […]
Review of chapter 4 from “Discovering the News”
Posted by: samsnider | December 3, 2009 | No Comment |In reviewing chapter 4 of Michael Schudson, several prominent themes are addressed: ranging from from the downfall of the democratic market society, the decline of facts in journalism, and the issue of subjectivity and objectivity in the press. But the overriding theme is the shift in journalism to a more “objective” style as felt to […]
Schudson chapter four: journalism after WWI
Posted by: donaldomahony | December 2, 2009 | No Comment |There are three sections in this chapter. The first is called “Losing Faith in the Democratic Market Society.” Basically, this section talked about how people did not have a good feeling about how well democracy was going to work. Some people felt like a dictatorship might be better because, as Nicholas Murray Butler put it, dictatorship “appears […]
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Tags: butler, Journalism, lee, lippmann, macdougall, o'mahony, Objectivity, reporting
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Objectivity, a mainstay to modern journalism, was not always present in early American newspapers — nor was it expected. “Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers” considers objectivity’s role in American newspapers from the early days of the Penny Press to the 1970’s. Author Michael Schudson‘s introduction lays the groundwork for what will […]
From its early beginnings as a system of warning to its present day status as a profitable manipulation of the mass media, war reporting has undergone some significant changes to say the least. During this evolution, the concept of war reporting has still maintained that sense of security that all news provides to the populace […]
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Tags: ABC, CNN, Evan Wright, Morley Safer, Objectivity, Snider, Vietnam, War Reporting
Tags: ABC, CNN, Evan Wright, Morley Safer, Objectivity, Snider, Vietnam, War Reporting
“On Objectivity” – John Stuart Mill/Michael Schudson
Posted by: briancain | October 21, 2009 | No Comment |John Stuart Mill, one of the greatest advocates for freedom of speech and author of “On Liberty,” would disagree with objectivity in the news – he would advocate op-ed pieces and blogging. Mill, who wrote “On Liberty” in 1859, like journalists, was concerned with finding the truth. Mill, however, believed that conflicting opinions “shared the […]