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Beatty reviews by Steven R. Knowlton and Karen L. Freeman.
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During the 1950s, the American Society of Newspaper Editors became the site of an ideological struggle between the racial status quo and the new social order envisioned by the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. This article examines the all-white ASNE in the years after Brown as the racial exclusivity of the organization and the profession it represented were both questioned and reaffirmed. Using a variety of primary source documents, including ASNE publications, convention transcripts, and members' archival materials, this project isolates the ways in which the white prerogative reasserted itself through the exclusivity of the ASNE membership structure, the usage of regional history and identity by editors from the South, and the manipulation of the journalistic ide...
... ASNE members, and the deployment of objectivity and the First Amendment as a cover for racism with...
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Then, of course, there are the ambushes, incoming mortars and nerve-shattering fire' fights - usually two or three a day - the "war" part of war. The blood-and-death-and-killing part By 2007, one-fifth of all combat in Afghanistan is taking place in the Korengal, which U.S. forces consider a critical passageway for Taliban fighters entering the country from Pakistan, and [Restrepo] is its most remote, most vulnerable outpost Writing about his five long stays there in 2007 and 2008, [Sebastian Junger] dismisses any hope for journalistic objectivity early in the book, and understandably so. "You can't write objectively about people you're close to," he says, "but you can't write objectively about people who are shooting at you, either.
Despite what Hollywood films might lead us to believ...
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This article explores the national discussion in 1900 about press responsibility, which was sparked by the Rev. Charles Sheldon, a pastor of a Congregationalist church, serving a week-long stint as editor of the Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital. Afterward, the general consensus of the reams of commentary, from both the press and the pastorate, was that editing a daily paper from a "Christian point of view" was a failure. Nevertheless, the debate revealed the pulpit's acknowledgement of its conferral of the role of agent of education and moral uplift upon the press, making it the new arbiter of public opinion. However, it also showed the pulpit challenging the notion of journalistic objectivity as it struggled to redefine news as interpretive and advocative in order to comport with a journa...
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Considering the matter with complete journalistic objectivity and not a hint of bias, one must conclude that the Memphis Grizzlies deserve to win their NBA Western Conference semifinal series against Oklahoma City.
Both Memphis and OKC are young, small-market, home crowd- thrilling enterprises, but the argument is strong: The Grizzlies have been an effective antidote to the storm clouds over Memphis and the relentless rain and the ominous threat of a rising Mississippi.
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The tension at El Aguila Restaurant in Passaic was such that even journalistic objectivity was subjugated by nationalistic fervor.
Por favor," muttered a passing reporter from Univision, white- knuckling her microphone in frustration. "Dios, mio," meaning, "Please, God.
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Despite the claim of the now-deceased David Halberstam that journalistic objectivity is difficult to come by (he used a barnyard epithet in his original comment), a premise among reviewers is that we should approach products with some level of detachment.
When it comes to Adobe Corp. and its rather advanced consumer products, that's a very tall order for this reviewer to fill. I've long been a fan, and the newest "prosumer" offerings from the firm - Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Adobe Premiere Elements 9 - do anything but disappoint. (In calling these "prosumer" products, the intention is to suggest that while aimed at the consumer market, each has quite a number of professional-level features. At a list price of $99.99 each, or both together for $149.99, they represent a powerful barg...
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Voice of reason
I find it ironic that the most thoughtful reflections on the U.S.S. Enterprise video "scandal" have come from a newspaper 3,000 miles away from where the story happened. Perhaps that kind of distance is necessary to achieve some measure of perspective; sadly, our local newspaper - the paper that broke the story - has been unable to exhibit the same journalistic objectivity.
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Voice of reason
I find it ironic that the most thoughtful reflections on the U.S.S. Enterprise video "scandal" have come from a newspaper 3,000 miles away from where the story happened. Perhaps that kind of distance is necessary to achieve some measure of perspective; sadly, our local newspaper - the paper that broke the story - has been unable to exhibit the same journalistic objectivity.
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Effects of media mergers on journalistic objectivity - Column
Recent mass media mergers will not have major effects on journalistic objectivity because editors have always censored news coverage to please the rich and powerful owners of the media. This self-censorship is a grave danger to the freedom of the press.