Exactly so. The so-called “long-gone era of television journalism” being pined for never existed, and never will exist. It never existed in print, either.
On that note, I’ve seen a short history write up here on the rise of the fiction of “objective journalism” with the rise of the wire services. Does anyone know what I’m talking about, and have a link for it?
The way I put the question is this: what if “And that’s the way it is” never was?
Conservatism_is_compassion is one of the resident FReeper experts on the Associated Press and the fiction of “objective journalism.”
I just now pinged him to this thread.
Here’s one of CiC’s threads.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2387446/posts
Journalism and Objectivity
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