Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-194) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: objectivity -- Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivity's primordial soup -- Nonpartisanship : three shades of political journalism -- The inverted pyramid : Edwin M. Stanton and information control -- Facticity : science, culture, cholera, and the rise of journalism's "native empiricism," 1832-66 -- Balance : a "slanderous and nasty-minded mulatress," Ida B. Wells, confronts "objectivity in the 1890s -- Conclusion : thoughts on a post-"objective" profession -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay -- Works cited --Index -- About the author.
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