Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Journalism has invented conventions to protect this myth of objectivity. Things like pyramid style, the absence of modifiers, the elimination of the first-person are used to separate the reporter from the story he is writing in much the same way as he is separated by his role from the event itself...
CHICAGO should have been the coup de grace to the myth of objectivity, but unfortunately, instead of being liberated by their discovery, many journalists felt pushed in just the opposite direction...
Kraft's reaction to the press's anger in Chicago is shame. As a journalist schooled in the myth of objectivity, he seems to feel guilty after showing his feelings. And justifies his action by turning to still another meaningless journalistic cliche--that the reporter is the "agent of the sovereign public...
Found and Lost. Sharp-tongued and harder-hitting, Beard shattered the myth of America's perfect past by a frontal assault on the Founding Fathers. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter...
...Notes is the somewhat autobiographical account of Exley's youthful attempts to participate in the American myth. He wants to be the superhero, cheered on by adoring crowds -if not on the football field, where his father had excelled, then as a famous writer. He sees himself conquering the citadel of New York, luxuriating in money and success. The woman of his dreams has breathtaking legs, a snub nose, a Vassar girl's sophistication and the idealistic innocence of Doris Day about to be seduced by none other than Freddy Exley of Watertown...