The Associated Press’s shared-client model invented journalistic objectivity

Evidence

Since the Associated Press gathered news for publication in a variety of papers with widely different political allegiances, it could only succeed by making its reporting “objective” enough to be acceptable to all its members and clients. By the late nineteenth century, the AP dispatches were markedly more free from editorial comment than most reporting for single newspapers. It has been argued, then, that the practice of the Associated Press became the ideal of journalism in general. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 201

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel to Milgrom’s finding that third-party adjudication systems arise to solve information problems among traders with divergent allegiances. — connects to: The wire service model created journalism’s objectivity ideal
• DEFINE: Explains the market-infrastructure origin of the objectivity norm.

Broader Connections

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