Path Dependency, Drift, Conversion, Layering, and the Standard of Objectivity: The State of a Hallowed Media Tradition

• In Event: Political Effects from Journalistic Practices

Brief Overview

Treating the news media's objectivity standard (OS) as an institutional order, I employ the concepts, path dependency, drift, layering, and conversion, to trace the evolution of OS from early 20th century through the present.

Author

• Girma Elyot Parris, Case Western Reserve University