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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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With the 2012 presidential campaign drawing to a close today, the polls are still in a deadlock. Not only does every vote count, but so does every minute, every dollar, and every endorsement. Not only do celebrities and other public figures endorse politicians, but newspapers also openly endorse presidential and senate candidates. The Loudoun Times […]

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Should journalists have opinions?

Posted by: | October 30, 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: […]

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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 […]

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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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Climactic change in objectivity?

Posted by: | December 3, 2009 | No Comment |

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 […]

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“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 […]

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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 […]

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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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“The ideal of objectivity”

Posted by: | December 2, 2009 | No Comment |

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 […]

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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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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 […]

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