“Objectivity as an aspirational ideal ends up encouraging journalists to avoid addressing what matters.” Even in recent conversations about transforming journalism, objectivity as an ideal often gets ...

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Acknowledgments -- Introduction: objectivity -- Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivity's primordial soup -- Nonpartisanship : three shades of political ...