Abstract: Objectivity and emotionality have long been viewed as opposing forces in the field of journalism. While journalists follow a strategic ritual of objectivity, this paper uses the theory of the strategic ritual of emotionality and argues that the two can, and should, be understood as concepts that can work together throughout feature journalism. This article uses the Pulitzer Prize as a marker of “cultural capital” of journalistic lore and analyzes the winning feature articles through the strategic ritual of objectivity in conjunction with the strategic ritual of emotionality (Tuchman, 1972, p. 134). This research attempts to answer how, and in what ways, journalists use these two rituals to create affect in feature writing.
Abstract: The Hawaiian faith is built upon thousands of stories. It is westerners’ single-story ideals of Hawaii that have suffocated Native Hawaiian oral history of faith since their arrival to the islands many years ago. Most Americans that consider themselves to be religious are Christians, myself included, worshipping one deity: God. Hawaii’s native faith is much different than the religions most mainlanders are exposed to. It is crucial to the faith’s survival that we attempt to understand these stories before it is too late.