All 3 Uses
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All Over but the Shoutin'
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- We are taught in this business to leave our emotions out of a story, to view things with pure and perfect objectivity, but that was impossible on this story.
Chpt 2.23 *objectivity = lack of bias (influence of personal feelings or preferences)
- I learned that objectivity is pure crap, if the pain is so strong it bleeds onto the yellowed newsprint years, or even decades, later.†
Chpt 2.23
- A story north of Miami, in Fort Lauderdale, tested my objectivity.†
Chpt 2.25
Definitions:
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(objective as in: our objective is to...) a goal (some end desired to be achieved)
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(objective as in: an objective viewpoint) fact-based without the influence of personal feelings or preferencesObjective is often contrasted with subjective--which means "influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)."
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less common meanings of objective include:
- In philosophy -- existing outside of the mind.
- In grammar -- the object of a verb or of certain prepositions.
- In optics -- the lens nearest the object being viewed