About Robert A. Hackett 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. Books by Robert A. Hackett The Missing News Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press by (author) Robert A. Hackett, Richard Gruneau & Donald Gutstein Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity by (author) Robert A. Hackett & Yuezhi Zhao