Explainer: Objectivity in journalism

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Objectivity has long been one of the important principles of journalism, but why has it now also become one of the most hotly contested? Tom Midwood takes a comical analysis.

Tom Midwood is a La Trobe University journalism student. You can follow him on twitter @tom_midwood or his blog, tommidwood.com/

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