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News with Views: Postobjectivism and Emergent Alternative Journalistic Practices in America's Corporate News Media
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kperogi, Farooq A. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | One of the inchoate yet defining features of journalism in the twenty-first century has been the profession's unannounced but nonetheless consequential repudiation of the time-honored journalistic ethos of “objectivity.” In this paper, I argue that the gradual renunciation of the ideals of objectivity in contemporary journalistic practice, especially in the United States which birthed the concept, is both a return to journalism's roots and a back-handed, if profit-inspired, embrace of certain hallmarks of “alternative journalism,” which emerged as a counterfoil to nineteenth-century notions of “objective journalism.” I demonstrate my thesis by historicizing “objective journalism” and linking its emergence to multiple impulses: industrial capitalism's desire to capture as many eyeballs to consumer goods as possible using the instrumentality of the mass media; the seduction of nineteenth-century positivism, which conduced to the uncritical valorization of epistemic precision, measurability, the “scientific ... |
| Starting Page | 48 |
| Ending Page | 65 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/15358593.2012.752521 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://works.bepress.com/farooq_kperogi/7/download/ |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2012.752521 |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
