Just the facts: how "objectivity" came to define American journalism

Acknowledgments

Introduction: objectivity

Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivitiy'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

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