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Just the Facts: How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism. David Z. Mindich. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
"All I want are the facts!" Mr. Gradgrind demands in a famous Dickens novel. But since he never gets "the facts," he never understands the modern world.
All David Mindich wants, years later, are the facts. Chief among them: there...