Them and US. Matthew Reimer compares British and US journalism and the different assumptions on which their work is founded.

the American journalism also seems to believe in a theoretical yet attainable state of objectivity and strictly segregated formats governing the presentation of opinion and fact -- that, in a way, journalism is more of a science which can be practiced very exactly, not a profession of inherent bias. The Brit is less afraid of opinion and more naturally embraces slant and agendas as part and parcel of the journalistic, historical process surrounding the recounting of events.

Objectivity is a myth sold to the public by publishers striving to reduce the number of papers cmpeting in the marketplace.

People were afraid that if there were fewer papers there would be fewer voices. Publishers and capitalists conned them, saying that the remaining papers would be "objective" in the news columns so there was no voice -- or at least, no particular voice. Voices would be kept on the editorial pagers where the publishers could control them.

So many papers disappeared and what to be have, even greater concentration and even fewer voiced coming -- but, hey, won't they be objective!