Journalists are in the daily business of making the unseen visible, of connecting us to the world beyond our direct experience. In doing this, objectivity becomes a pivotal issue, and a highly debated topic both in academia and everyday life. The first systematic approach to the issue of objectivity was initiated by the discipline of mass media sociology this approach, which was at its peak between 1970 and 1980 in the United States, proposed a completely scientific, mathematical solution to the problem of objectivity.

This book is an overview of academic work on...