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Writing in 2006 about the fraudulent memoirist James Frey, whose partially fabricated account of his struggles with addiction came to be seen as a high point of narcissism during the era's memoir craze, she connected Frey's slippery personal revisionism to broader cultural trends eroding the value of objectivity and truth.
Objectivity and realism in the documentary movement shared the cognitive and political value of objectivity or factuality we have seen in modernism, socialism, scientism and logical empiricism.
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In the case of scientific disciplines, values of objectivity are based on cosmological assumptions about there being subjects and objects in the world and which beings, entities, and phenomena fall under one or the other.
In that context, American journalism's historical values of objectivity and fairness seem quaint.
"Anger's introduction sets out to recuperate values of objectivity and historical knowledge on ethical and political grounds...
"We felt, 'Shouldn't we have a vision?' We felt a need to revisit essential core values of impartiality, objectivity".
The idea was that foreign elites who adopted the values of science – objectivity, internationalism, the free exchange of information – would be more receptive to American overtures more generally.
Feminist standpoint theory is often contrasted to feminist empiricism as an alternative epistemology for addressing concerns about the role of values and questions of objectivity.
To illustrate his point, Feyerabend compares the defenders of a strong, value-free notion of objectivity to scientists who stick to the concepts of absolute length and time in spite of the Theory of Relativity.
Siôn Simon, the minister for creative industries, said the panel would oversee the assessment of bids against criteria of objectivity, value for money, innovation, public benefit, and adherence to official procurement policies.
His essays often questioned the value and objectivity of truth and the harmful effect he believed the Christian faith could have on society.
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