| If there is such a thing that could be labeled as the professional ideology of modern American journalism, it would be the ideal of objectivity.; From a cultural studies perspective, this study conducts by a textual analysis, using the method of ideological criticism, of the news coverage of the Spanish-American War and the Vietnam War in the Times. Through the analysis, the study intends to look at how the ideal of objectivity evolved from the 1890s to the 1960s. It also explores the relation between the development of this professional ideal and its social cultural settings, including the dominant ideology. |
