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
And on a lighter note, the black crows are back. We go on tour with the Robinson Brothers who started the band, broke it up and are now reunited musically and personally. Its friday, march 13th, 2020. Well have the latest updates on the coronavirus right after todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Just a question of time. Stay away from people. Watch your hands and do all the things were supposed to be doing a little bit anyway. Life here in america is changing. The full scope of the coronavirus outbreak is coming into focus. And it is a grim picture. We dont know how long it lasts. Usually several weeks to a couple of months. We have anticipated that cases of coronavirus would increase. Were seeing that pattern play out. We know theres more to come. The market reacting to the president s decision to suspend travel. I guess were going to get through this one. Obviously impacted nba, nhl, major league bairblseball, tenn soccer. This one really stopped people in its tracks. The nc
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
Help in our time of need. May the peace of god be with you all. Good afternoon. Friends, we have gathered together today to celebrate the life of jim lehrer and to offer comfort to his family who have called this church their home since 1977. On behalf of the congregation of National United Methodist Church, welcome. And its my privilege to welcome and to introduce john obrien. Good afternoon. On behalf of the family, i would like to welcome everyone here today. Id first like to express the family familys gratitude and appreciation for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the last week. Your calls, your cards, the visits, your beautiful flowers, the food, your support and condolences have meant so much. Knowing the sense of loss is felt by so many relieves the burden and is truly a comfort. Thank you. I want to thank those of you who have traveled from outside d. C. Knowing that you dropped everything to be here with us to celebrate jims remarkable life is grea