By Michael Schudson

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On Sale: Feb 13, 1981
Page Count: 240 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN-13: 9780465016662

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.