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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23. Respectability and objectivity in journalism more often than not means parroting what the powers that be say.
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24. During early Vietnam war, you got better news from disreputable, ideological I.F. Stone than from objective New York Tmes.
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25. During run-up to Iraq, you got better news about weakness of WMD case from ideological Democracy Now than from objective New York Times
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26. Respectability, for journalists, can be a trap, a way of accepting certain a priori judgements as to who can be trusted & what is news
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27. So, Jesse Brown is disreputable. Agreed. Does that mean what he writes is less valuable than what the Globe prints.
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