Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
There is no single explanation for the holes in U.S. news coverage of the Bush Administration, but Brent Cunningham argues that journalists' devotion to what they call "objectivity" played a role by making them "passive recipients of news, rather than aggressive analyzers and explainers of it." Moreover, he notes, the concept itself is unclear: "Ask ten journalists what objectivity means and you'll get ten different answers."
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