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The invention of journalism ethics : the path to objectivity and beyond / Stephen J.A. Ward.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 38.Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xii, 360 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0773528105
  • 9780773528109
  • 0773528113
  • 9780773528116
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.90704 22
LOC classification:
  • PN4756 .W37 2004
Contents:
Introduction : reinventing journalism ethics -- 1. Objectivity : senses and origins -- 2. Objectivity : ancient, early modern, positivist -- 3. The invention of journalism ethics : the seventeenth century -- 4. The invention of a public ethic : the eighteenth century -- 5. Anticipating objectivity : the nineteenth century -- 6. Objectivity and after : the twentieth century -- Epilogue : the future of objectivity.
Review: "Stephen Ward goes back to the partisan English newsbooks of the seventeenth century to pinpoint the origins of journalistic ethics. He demonstrates that concern for objectivity gained momentum in the late 1800s and discusses the many factors that motivated journalists to construct their own ideas of objectivity. Ward's theory of pragmatic objectivity draws on studies in epistemology and philosophy of science to construct a richer, more adequate conception of objectivity to guide journalism today."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-352) and index.

Introduction : reinventing journalism ethics -- 1. Objectivity : senses and origins -- 2. Objectivity : ancient, early modern, positivist -- 3. The invention of journalism ethics : the seventeenth century -- 4. The invention of a public ethic : the eighteenth century -- 5. Anticipating objectivity : the nineteenth century -- 6. Objectivity and after : the twentieth century -- Epilogue : the future of objectivity.

"Stephen Ward goes back to the partisan English newsbooks of the seventeenth century to pinpoint the origins of journalistic ethics. He demonstrates that concern for objectivity gained momentum in the late 1800s and discusses the many factors that motivated journalists to construct their own ideas of objectivity. Ward's theory of pragmatic objectivity draws on studies in epistemology and philosophy of science to construct a richer, more adequate conception of objectivity to guide journalism today."--BOOK JACKET.

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