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Just the Facts How Objectivity Came to Define American Journalism

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ISBN-10: 081475614X

ISBN-13: 9780814756140

Edition: 2000

Authors: David T. Z. Mindich

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There is a growing unhappiness about the direction of news coverage. Readers and viewers want 'objectivity' back. The first step toward doing that is to understand where 'objective' journalism came from in the first place. Just the Facts is a good place to begin.--Jonathan Alter, The Washington Monthly"Superb. . . . Mindich links history to contemporary practice by examining the current debate about objectivity through his 100-year-old lens."--Steve Weinberg, The Christian Science Monitor"Mindich offers an engaging discussion of how each of these characteristics [of objectivity] emerged in nineteenth century journalism. . . . shows a conversance with current scholarship rare among…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.80" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

A former assignment editor for CNN, DAVID MINDICH has also written for the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, and New York Newsday.