Michael Schudson Quotes
Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it.
Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. Basic Books, 1978, p. 7.
See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} & Barbara Tuchman {626144} for similar views and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. See {638618} for a Sociology principle that is similar. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
This quotation from his speech was reprinted with others and issued by the CIA upon Helms’ death in 2002.
Michael S. Schudson is professor of journalism in the graduate school of journalism of Columbia University and adjunct professor in the department of sociology. He is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is an expert in the fields such as journalism history, media sociology, political communication, and public culture.
