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Sustaining Democracy?

Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity

by (author) Robert A. Hackett & Yuezhi Zhao

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
Journalism, Social Aspects, Media Studies, Democracy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551930138
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $43.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442602991
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $27.95

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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.

About the authors

Robert Hackett is a Professor of Communication and Co-director of NewsWatch Canada. He is co-author of Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity.

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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.

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