In the social responsibility model, objectivity is trumpeted as the journalists’ core principle, the driving force of their daily investigation and writing. Yet as media researchers in a number of...

In the social responsibility model, objectivity is trumpeted as the journalists’ core principle, the driving force of their daily investigation and writing. Yet as media researchers in a number of countries have demonstrated, journalists readily place patriotism above objectivity and define objectivity in practice as the middle point between two opposing views, often those of rival political parties, not troubling to question whether truth may lie somewhere else.