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Making News A Study in the Construction of Reality

Barbara W. Tuchman

From Simon & Schuster, Making News is Gaye Tuchman's exploration into the study in the construction of reality. The Professor of Sociology at Queens College and City University of New York, Tuchman's latest work is one to cherish.As described by Todd Gitlin of Contemporary Sociology , Making News is...

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was described as a sociologist's study of newsrooms in the 1970s and 80s that introduced the idea of objectivity as a strategic ritual journalists use to appear neutral.

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The second recommendation I have is called Making News by Gaye Tuchman, a sociologist, G-A-Y-E Tuchman. And she was part of a group of academics who in the 70s and 80s went into newsrooms to study how...

— Episode: It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutr...

Episode: It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or D...

It was described as a sociologist's study of newsrooms in the 1970s and 80s that introduced the idea of objectivity as a strategic ritual journalists use to appear neutral.

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The second recommendation I have is called Making News by Gaye Tuchman, a sociologist, G-A-Y-E Tuchman. And she was part of a group of academics who in the 70s and 80s went into newsrooms to study how the people there work. And she came up with this notion of objectivity as a strategic ritual that journalists repeat in order to show I'm not cooking the books, I'm not for this side, I'm not for that side.

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