Please submit your questions use the q a feature i will integrate as many as i can as time allows we will broadcast this friday im so excited to speak with lisa who got her first journalism job at cnn in turning new york at the nbc bureau as a chief reporter for the New York Times and msnbc and many other outlets authoring to prevent on two previous books about the man who made the mcdonalds fortune. Thank you for being with us im really excited to talk about your book. Back at you. I am delighted to virtually be with that constituency. Are glad to have you. Its difficult for some people who are watching to imagine what life was like before the news is all the time or even what it look like somehow out there was this idea of the 24 7 Cable News Network . And tell ted turner turn the switch on all night, there was no tv on my its hard to imagine but before cable had come along and before ted had the idea normally television stopped after the late movie and off all night and then came ba
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
Editor. Were proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation. He is the author of more than 25 books, including his latest, roy reforming journalism which he will discuss today. Marvins political journey is unique he became a athiest and marxist in high school and joint the communist party in the early 1970s. It was well at the university of michigan working on his ph. D and he had a spiritual awaken something and was baptized into the presence tieran church in 1976. He later became the founder of redeemer presence tearon church in austin, texas, in 1992. After college, he taught journalism for more than 25 years at the university of texas at austin and became a reporter for the yale dailies news and the boston globe. His first book garnered him significant attention and also caught the eye of the bradley foundation, which support is his visiting fellowship right here at the Heritage Foundation for two years. One of his most wellknown works the tragedy of american compassion which
Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation, executive editor of the daily signal, courtesy to our speaker today i would like to ask that you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off because we do encourage you to tweet and share on social media about todays program to help spread the word. You can find on Heritage Feed on both channels and platforms, to introduce our guest today marvin olasky, former visiting fellow and close friend of our organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest reforming journalism which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political journey is quite unique. As he became an atheist and a marxist in high school and joined the communist party in 1970s. He was at the university of michigan working on ph. D that he had spiritual awakening and baptized into the Presbyterian Church in 1976, he later became the founder of redimo Presbyterian Church in austin texas in 1982. After college he taught at university of texas at
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