Sustaining Democracy?
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Sustaining Democracy?

Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Sustaining Democracy?

Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity

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The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity. Sustaining Democracy? asks whether it is worth trying to be objective in the first place by addressing current, and highly topical, debates on the relationship between journalism and democracy in Canada and the United States. These debates are made all the more urgent by the perceived crises of technological change, declining and fragmented audiences, media concentration, and popular cynicism about public life.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction. In Search of a Metaphor
  4. 1. Democratic Discourse and the Origins of News Objectivity
  5. 2. From Positivism to Negative News: The Evolution of Objectivity
  6. 3. Institutional Logics: Why It Still Pays to Be Objective
  7. 4. The God Who Won't Die: News Objectivity as a Regime
  8. 5. Epistemologies in Contention: Journalistic Objectivity as (Un)workable Philosophy
  9. 6. The Politics of Objective Journalism
  10. 7. Regimes in Crisis: Liberal Democracy and Objective Journalism in Question
  11. 8. Straws in the Wind: Alternatives to the Regime?
  12. 9. Conclusion: Towards Public Communication for Sustainable Democracy
  13. Notes
  14. Index