National Constitution Center. They are the only institution, chartered by congress, to increase awareness of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. We have a series of exciting town halls coming up and i want lug them. A new book, their virginian dynasty. On october 1, the National Constitution center is the National Constitution centers drafting project. Team teamd liberal and team conservative to draft, they will tell us how they think a constitution from scratch would reed and i cant wait to share that with you. We have programs on october in october on immigration and the new book the upswing. I hope you will join us for them as well as tuning into our weekly podcast. Now it is a pleasure to introduce the amazing panelists for this program tonight on the First Amendment, journalism, and the protests. We bill be taking her questions throughout the program, so put them in the Community Box and i will introduce them. Now it is time to introduce our guests a
We have seen a lot of ups and downs in the Latino Community. None more stark than the last 3. 5 years. Donald trump his administration have pursued an allout assault on latino communities, from the moment he came down that golden escalator saying he was going to take on the mexican rapists. It started the moment he announced his presidency. Feeding the flames of fears and racism against latinos. It is baked into every aspect of how he has governed. This week was an especially poignant reminder of the terrible consequences of allowing that kind of hate to grow unchecked. Butought we could defeat a, it only hides under the rocks. When a president breathes oxygen in, it comes roaring out. On monday, we marked the oneyear anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in el paso where a gunman explicitly sought to target latinos and 23 beautiful lives were stolen from us and their families. I know what it is like to lose a child. It is awful. The stakes of trumps irresponsible policies, of divisi
Chemical ircant tackedic in th spotlight well beyond minneapolis. And later no justice, no peace. Voices from the protest front lines. Broad day light. Good evening. Im Major Garrett. Demonstrations sparked by the death of george floyd while in Minneapolis Police custody 13 days ago have coalesced into what appears to be a nationwide todapl returned to the street falling for Police Reforms and Racial Justice. The crowds diverse and overwhelmingly peaceful. Jamie youkilis tonight where it all began. Rtearks a week since george floyd died at the hands of fighting against Police Brutality and racism. Crowds returned to american streets again today following yesterdays mass demonstrations, protesting the death of george floyd. Overnight it got ugly in portland, oregon and seattle. Washington, d. C. Congressman john lewis joined the citys mayor to visit the site. Going to black lives matter plaza. Its been powerful. An francisco, ppedraffic al iconic gden gate bridge. A rally with nearly 30
Beliefs, judgments,ideologies direct those decisions. Direct the report. So what does that mean . Does that mean its hopeless, that everythings opinion . In feature stories the choice of a protagonist and antagonist, we call this ammo when were running our word world journalisminstitute. Even simple stories out protagonist, antagonist, mission obstacles and the basic structure is someone does something because , but and then youhave the tension that comes in. Reporters decide who the someone is, whether something is and write these reports and i stress that because this leads to sometimes people throwing uptheir hands. Conventional objectivity doesnt work its all subjective this brings us to point number seven and the worlds mission statement. We tried to provide biblically objective journalism that informs, educates andinspires. Its so different from the conventional notion of objectivity that some people have a hard timegetting their arms around so ill try to explain. For 23 years no
Now the editor in chief Marvin Olasky examines the principles of journalism and offers his thoughts on reporting. Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political jou