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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.
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...
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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.
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.