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Sustaining Democracy?: Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
ISBN: 9781442602991
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Journalism -- Objectivity; Press and politics; Journalism -- Political aspects;

The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity. Sustaining Democracy? asks whether it is worth trying to be objective in the first place by addressing current, and highly topical, debates on the relationship between journalism and democracy in Canada and the United States. These debates are made all the more urgent by the perceived crises of technological change, declining and fragmented audiences, media concentration, and popular cynicism about public life.

Robert A. Hackett is a Professor of Communication and Co-director of NewsWatch Canada .
Zhao Yuezhi :

Yuezhi Zhao teaches in the department of Communication, University of California at San Diego, and is the author of Media, Market and Democracy in China: Between the Party and the Bottom Line .