[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":112},["ShallowReactive",2],{"episode-just-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"subtitle":7,"pubdate":8,"tags":13,"thumb":21,"excerpt":27,"content":28,"transcript":23,"transcript_file":23,"audio":29,"resources":33,"segments":38},281,"just-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press","Just the Facts?","Partisanship and the Press",{"utc":9,"short":10,"medium":11,"long":12},1238122858,"03.27.09","Mar 27, 2009","March 27, 2009",[14,15,16,17,18,19,20],"\"fake news\"","journalism","journalistic ethics","news media","objectivity","public confidence","publishing",{"src":22,"caption":23,"derivatives":24},"https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Fcdn.backstoryradio.org\u002Fimages\u002Fjust-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press\u002FJustFacts.jpg",null,{"square_small":25,"square_medium":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Fcdn.backstoryradio.org\u002Fimages\u002Fjust-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press\u002Fsquare_small\u002FJustFacts.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Fcdn.backstoryradio.org\u002Fimages\u002Fjust-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press\u002Fsquare_medium\u002FJustFacts.jpg","What ever happened to good, old-fashioned, objective reporting? In this hour, the Backstory hosts turn that question on its head, and ask instead where the notion of “objective” reporting came from in the first place.","\u003Cp>The current era of partisan news and name-calling is enough to make you wonder what happened to good old-fashioned \u003Cem>objective\u003C\u002Fem> reporting. But in this hour, \u003Cem>BackStory \u003C\u002Fem>asks: Where did the idea of media objectivity come from in the first place? Historian Marcus Daniel explains that the bitter rhetoric of editors in the 1790s played a key role in the birth of our democracy. Matthew Goodman tells the story of an elaborate hoax involving “lunar man-bats” in the early days of the penny press. And Michael Kinsley, founder of the online journal \u003Cem>Slate\u003C\u002Fem>, argues that opinion journalism can be more informative than so-called “objective” news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>",{"url":30,"duration":31,"formatted_duration":32},"https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Fcdn.backstoryradio.org\u002Faudio\u002Fepisodes\u002Fjust-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press.mp3","3179","00:52:59",[34],{"title":35,"content":36,"files":37},"Further Reading","\u003Ch5>All Centuries\u003C\u002Fh5>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Corporation for Public Broadcasting \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fs3.amazonaws.com\u002Fcdn.backstoryradio.org\u002Ffiles\u002Fjust-the-facts-partisanship-and-the-press\u002Fresources-inline\u002Fcpb_ConceptualHistory_DvorkinStavitsky.pdf\">report\u003C\u002Fa> on the history of objectivity in American journalism (PDF)\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>A \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.journalismethics.ca\u002F\">primer\u003C\u002Fa> on the history of journalism ethics\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fuwpress.wisc.edu\u002Fbooks\u002F2651.htm\">Essays\u003C\u002Fa> on the print culture of American women\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmemory.loc.gov\u002Fammem\u002Frbpehtml\u002F\">Three centuries\u003C\u002Fa> of broadsides and printed ephemera\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch5>18th Century\u003C\u002Fh5>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Thomas Jefferson’s \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fguides.lib.virginia.edu\u002FTJ\">ever-changing views\u003C\u002Fa> on freedom of the press\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Historian Jill Lepore \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.newyorker.com\u002Farts\u002Fcritics\u002Fatlarge\u002F2009\u002F01\u002F26\u002F090126crat_atlarge_lepore\">recounts\u003C\u002Fa> the long history of newspaper industry end-days\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cem>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fbooks.google.com\u002Fbooks?id=IUcDAAAAYAAJ&dq=peter+porcupine&source=gbs_navlinks_s\">The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine\u003C\u002Fa> \u003C\u002Fem>by \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Farchive.org\u002Fdetails\u002Flifewilliamcobb01cobbgoog\">William Cobbett\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.history.org\u002FAlmanack\u002Flife\u002Ftrades\u002Ftradepri.cfm\">printer & binder\u003C\u002Fa> in colonial Virginia\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>A 19th Century \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Farchive.org\u002Fdetails\u002Fprintinghistory05thomrich\">account\u003C\u002Fa> of the history of printing in America\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch5>19th Century\u003C\u002Fh5>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>The original text and illustrations of \u003Cem>The Sun’s \u003C\u002Fem>1835 “\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.museumofhoaxes.com\u002Fhoax\u002Farchive\u002Fpermalink\u002Fthe_great_moon_hoax\">Great Moon Hoax\u003C\u002Fa>“\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>An \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.onthemedia.org\u002F2010\u002Fsep\u002F03\u002Fthe-great-moon-hoax\u002Ftranscript\u002F\">interview\u003C\u002Fa> with Matthew Goodman\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Matthew Goodman compares \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fhnn.us\u002Farticles\u002F59894.html\">19th century media hoaxes\u003C\u002Fa> to those of today\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Media critic Bill Powers \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.theatlantic.com\u002Fmagazine\u002Farchive\u002F2005\u002F01\u002Fthe-massless-media\u002F303668\u002F\">explores\u003C\u002Fa> the similarities between today’s media landscape and that of the 19th century\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmemory.loc.gov\u002Fammem\u002Fndlpcoop\u002Fmoahtml\u002Fsnchome.html\">The 19th Century in Print\u003C\u002Fa>: The Making of America in Books & Periodicals\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>penny press\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch5>20th Century & Beyond\u003C\u002Fh5>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>A \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.theatlantic.com\u002Fmichael-kinsley\u002F\">collection\u003C\u002Fa> of articles for \u003Cem>the Atlantic \u003C\u002Fem>by Michael Kinsley\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Dean of Columbia School of Journalism on \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fbigthink.com\u002Fideas\u002F2883\">objectivity\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>A wealth of reporting on \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.onthemedia.org\u002Fsearch\u002F?q=objectivity&x=0&y=0\">objectivity\u003C\u002Fa> from NPR’s \u003Cem>On the Media\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.journalism.columbia.edu\u002Fsite_map\">Michael Schudson\u003C\u002Fa> on saving American \u003Ca 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