Newspaper Names

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 21 08:33:55 PST 2003


Michael Pollak wrote:


>This is all untrue? Most papers were once party-aligned? Whence then
>(and when) came our peculiar notion of journalistic objectivity?

I think it came about in the late 19th/early 20th century, when the "quality" press was trying to distinguish itself from the yellow press. The NY Times was a major player in the transformation.

Doug



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