Just the facts : how "objectivity" came to define American journalism / David T.Z. Mindich.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: objectivity
Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivitiy's primordial soup
Nonpartisanship : three shades of political journalism
The inverted pyramid : Edwin M. Stanton and information control
Facticity : science, culture, cholera, and the rise of journalism's "native empiricism," 1832-66
Balance : a "slanderous and nasty-minded mulatress," Ida B. Wells, confronts "objectivity in the 1890s
Conclusion : thoughts on a post-"objective" profession
Notes
Bibliographic essay
Works cited
Index
About the author.