The early commercial and partisan presses were, to some extent, covering important events impartially. These papers often carried verbatim reports of presidential addresses and murder trials, or the annual statements of the U.S. Treasury. In the late 1800s, as newspapers pushed for greater circulation, newspaper reporting changed. Two distinct types of journalism emerged: the story-driven model, dramatizing important events and used by the penny papers and the yellow press; and the “just the facts” model, an approach that appeared to package information more impartially and that the six-cent papers favored.¹⁰ Implicit in these efforts was the question (still debated today): Is there, in journalism, an ideal, attainable, objective model, or does the quest for objectivity actually conflict with journalists’ traditional role of raising important issues about potential abuses of power in a democratic society?