Popular Culture Review Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1993 | Page 19

The Failure of Objectivity in Journalism

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Schiller’s argument is important here, because it implies that, by
withholding their own value judgments, journalists prevented their
readers from receiving an important alternative insight into the
nature of reality. The version of reality most available to the public
was the version favored by the power elite, a version that the elite
provided as official spokesmen--and they were almost all men—for
the status quo and which contained the values that they wished to
propagate. The journalists, who were careful to omit their own values
from their reports, therefore inevitably communicated the values of
the power elite instead. In Schiller