Objectivity in newspapers was a Cold War construction. I'm a big fan, Jeet, but I don't think u know this history.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/748709314861424641 …
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Some of that 1890s/early 1900s journalism used fiction techniques, a precursor of "New Journalism."
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Those distinctions not nearly as clear then - & "elite" journalism much, much less central & powerful.
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HJ is right here. The rise of the wire services contributed too.
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This narrative only works if you stick only to newspapers in major cities.
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&, of course, such work was always in magazines -- Harper's & Atlantic then as now. New Masses was very good.
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I take the point that so called New Journalism was return to older techniques crowded out by rise of objectivity.
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