Responsible, Probative & Relevant Journalism
We may not be divinely inspired, but we aspire to be.
Q You criticize politicians and ideologues for not having divine insight while openly speaking as if divinely inspired yourselves. Who anointed you to offer your own opinions as if fact?
A No one.
Your suggestion that our opinions, whether they are clearly marked opinion articles or editorials, are neither divine nor infallible, is emphatically correct.
We are very much aware of our own limitations, measured in terms of adequacy and accuracy of foundational information, intellectual integrity, clarity of language, and assumed wisdom.
Against these limitations we invoke standards and practices whose purpose is to rid us of doctrinal, ideological, political, or societal influences. Every one of us knows that we understand our good intentions far better than we deliver on them.
Your question suggests that our good intentions do not suffice — that no one knows enough, or is wise enough to be right on all issues all the time. We accept your premise.
Publishing content that speaks to what’s most important, what matters most, or what’s essential to preserving American cultural values and freedoms is inherently imperfect — so much so that the probity continuum extends from that which is knowingly and intentionally imperfect to that which is always and invariably perfect.
There are thus many levels of journalistic merit and perfection. Newsroom Magazine is only one, and often the least among, many earnest sources of news, information and analysis. Even as we speak on a wide range of issues, international, domestic and intellectual, we deliver a largely unwanted message: that truth, honor, public service, and fidelity-to-fact matter.
We do not support or proffer any political position, nor do we filter any material to intentionally favor any ideological or political viewpoint.
Newsroom Magazine favors, and attempts to deliver, relevant, probative and credible content on a wide range of subjects.
We are biased toward freedom, intellectual integrity, honesty, fair-dealing, journalistic excellence and critical thinking.
We may not be divinely inspired, but we aspire to be.
