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This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on.

Table of Contents
* The Ideal of Objectivity * The Revolution in American Journalism in the Age of Egalitarianism: The Penny Press * Telling Stories: Journalism as a Vocation After 1880 * Stories and Information: Two Journalisms in the 1890s * Objectivity Becomes Ideology: Journalism After World War I * Objectivity, News Management, and the Critical Culture

Discovering The News

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      Publisher Basic Books
      Published 13 February 1981
      ISBN-13 9780465016662
      978-0465016662
      ISBN-10 0465016669
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      Social and cultural history Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on.

      Table of Contents
      * The Ideal of Objectivity * The Revolution in American Journalism in the Age of Egalitarianism: The Penny Press * Telling Stories: Journalism as a Vocation After 1880 * Stories and Information: Two Journalisms in the 1890s * Objectivity Becomes Ideology: Journalism After World War I * Objectivity, News Management, and the Critical Culture

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