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Fair and Balanced. A History of Journalistic Objectivity
Academic journal article from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 1
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Fair and Balanced. A History of Journalistic Objectivity. Steven R. Knowlton and Karen L. Freeman, eds. Northport, AL: Vision Press, 2005. 246 pp. $24.95 hbk.
Fair and Balanced. A History of Journalistic Objectivity sets itself an unenviable task and comes to a brave conclusion. In analyzing the history of a concept one of the editors says is absent from almost all journalism textbooks, it tries, and generally succeeds, to extend the issues and background normally associated with the concept and to trace multiple interpretations of the term. Finally, it holds that while objectivity is for some, if not most, "pitiably passé," it has proven to be a "remarkably resilient concept," to …
