1. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
2. American Power and the New Mandarins 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
3. A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
4. Confronting the Cult of Objectivity
   Education in Crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   As the end of the semester draws near on campuses across the country, I thought I’d reflect on one of the largest threats to academic freedom in this country. I’ve long labeled this threat the “cult of objectivity,” represented in a variety of different pathologies that afflict students, faculty, and administrators.
5. Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   A criticism of the article, "Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity" by Michael Holtzman, challenging Holtzman's claims on the nature of objectivity and bias in reporting.
6. Inventing Reality 
   The Politics of News Media
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
7. Is the Media Your Message?
   Resource Type: Article
   Mainstream media are good for getting exposure, but for social change activists they may not be the best avenue.
8. A Life of Challenge to the Dogma of "Objectivity"
   Richard Bell Is Practiced at Juggling Journalism, Advocacy and Politics
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Journalism, advocacy, politics: Are they completely different fields or aspects of the same game? Can someone actually do all three? Richard Bell has done them all and has lived to tell the tale.
9. Newspeak in the 21st Century 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
10. Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s.
11. The Phenomenology of Mind 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
12. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
13. Sustaining Democracy?
    Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
14. What is Objective Journalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
15. Who Is An Objective Journalist?
    Agents of the Status Quo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.

Experts on Objektivit„t in the Sources Directory

1. Michael Riordon
2. Sources Select Resources