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
It is absolutely stunning. We just got thumped. I mean, i know that everybody got a lot of snow and this was a big storm, but i feel like somebody played a joke on me. Yeah. This is an insane amount of snow. I will pack some of it into cooler and send it to you. Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off which to me is are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. Its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charg
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