CONTENTS

Introduction

1   How Black Lives Matter Made the News

2   The Deviants: Race, Lynching, and the Origins of “Objectivity”

3   The Agitators: Journalists as Labor Leaders

4   Drowning in Facts: “Objectivity,” Ambiguity, and Vietnam

5   “Public Radio Voice”

6   Straight News, Gay Media, and the AIDS Crisis

7   Journalism’s Purity Ritual

8   “Can’t You Find Any More Women to Attack?”: What Happens When Facts Don’t Matter

9   Truth and the Lost Cause

10   The “Assault on Reality”: Trans People and Subjectivity

11   The View from Somewhere

Conclusion: The End of Journalism

Acknowledgments

Further Reading

Index