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Rethinking Objective Journalism

By Brent Cunningham, Columbia Journalism Review. Posted July 9, 2003.


The problem with U.S. coverage is not political bias but a misplaced adherence to a shallow definition of objectivity. [Editors' warning: You may want to print this one.]

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