9. Who broke the Rob Ford crack video story? It wasn't the Globe and Mail. It was Gawker.
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10. This Gawker essay is better cultural criticism than anything Globe & Mail has published in 140 years: http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 …
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11. Lots of things in Gawker I don't like, just like I don't like Wente's plagiarism, rape culture apologism, and climate denial.
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12. Daily Show is not hard news, but they are like an op-ed page (with editorial cartoons). Better op-ed page than the Globe, I'd say.
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13. Standing behind
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15. A little bit of journalism history might be helpful. Idea of respectable, objective media is a fairly recent invention.
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16.Sorry folks, I have to take Bella out for a bit. To be continued...
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17. So to resume: underlying the Houpt/Brown tiff is the self-conception of the Globe as the arbiter of respectable objective journalism.
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18. Objectivity is a late-born invention in journalism. 19th century papers weren't objective but partisan (Globe=Liberals) or entertainment
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19. The entertainment model of journalism (Hearst, Pulitzer, yellow press) caused upper-middle class panic: plebes were getting uppity.
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20. So in late 19th/early 20th century papers like Globe & NY Times carved niche as voices of objectivity & papers of record.
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21. "Objectivity" also had economic value: secured these papers a loyal readership base & advertisement from upper-middle-class.
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22. The problem with this sort of self-styled "objectivity is that it's amazingly blind to its own class bias & epistemological limits
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