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The Invention of Objectivity – The Atlantic
When Carr Van Anda joined The New York Times as its managing editor on February 14, 1904, the temperature inside the office dropped a few degrees—or so it felt.
Van Anda, age 39, was a chilly newsroom presence, a formal man who wore rimless glasses and a stickpin through his starched collars. Times reporters lived in fear of his chastening glare. They called it the “death ray.”
The most famous stories about “V.A.,” as he was known around the