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154. Objectivity
The Allusionist
The Failure of the Concept of Objectiveity in Journalism
The failure of the concept of objectivity has been a thing for almost as long as objectivity in journalism has been a things. Almost as soon as objectivity was on the books as something that journalists should do, it was used against union organizers. It was in about 19 30, maybe 19 33, that the word objectivity first appeared, you know, in an ethics code. By that word, i looked and looked for how far back could we go and find a journalist who was fired for supposedly not being objective? And that was of the associated press in 19 30 ie. morris watson,. Someone who was organizing one of the first unions of journalists was fired, essentially for being
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