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Thanks To You We're Growing Faster Than Ever Before
Chances are you've noticed that Newsroom Magazine is a very different publication.
We care about journalism -- and we're well aware many other organizations do it far better than we.
Our editorial standards, rules of custody, and skeptical editing for everything we produce, disseminate or expose to public viewing reflects a seriousness of purpose.
Six years after our founding, Newsroom Magazine continues to evolve the online publishing and preservation model we pioneered.
There is good news to share: Newsroom Magazine is is thriving.
And some less good news: Our limited resources, both journalistically and financially, are limiting our expansion of content.
Online News Preservation
In the six years since its founding, Newsroom Magazine has extended the field of news publishing into previously uncharted areas.
We take a long range view of news -- one that considers both timeliness and historical merit.
What we do, and how we do it, was not possible in the print media era -- for our content is both timely and timeless in the sense that we share the power of immediacy with all online media plus the perseverance of an encyclopedia.
Newsroom Magazine's publishing model goes beyond immediacy -- for unlike the newspaper era -- what we publish is permanently preserved. And tagged, indexed, and constantly updated by automated sitemap sharing with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, Ewatch, Alexa, Facebook, and others at home and far away.
All of our content, is meant to be preserved. Thanks to the capture and storage of our content at Google, including all updates and changes, and full collection archiving by the U.S. Internet Archives, everything we say, write, opine -- whether wise, foolish, or inconsequential-- is preserved.
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What we publish today is rarely as timely as the more traditional publications and online newspapers. What we choose to publish, sometimes days or months after a story first breaks, or on a subject neglected by most commercial media, is chosen to reflect one aspect of an ongoing reality for long term preservation.
From a handful of English-only readers when we published our first article -- the 1958 Edward R. Murrow speech before the Radio Television Directors Association in Chicago -- we have grown and wizened about our responsibilities to our readers and our own limitations and shortfalls.
Our most read article so far this year, The Adventures Of Bernie In Wonderland, was published November 23rd, 2009. The article consists of the unexpurgated SEC interview of Harry Markopolos in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi swindle case. It is not very interesting reading and it is very long -- but we published it in the belief that what it revealed was important and unlikely to remain online in its original format.
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The number of publications who devote themselves to publishing credible, responsible and probative content for posterity has dwindled.
Today Newsroom Magazine publishes a storehouse of credible, probative and relevant content -- well over 5000 articles including commentaries, essays, definitions, photographs, stories, reviews, discussions, tutorials, and logical explanations.
Our readership is nearly three times was it was only last year. Few might come to our content for entertainment -- for our purpose is otherwise.
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About 1% of government issued news we receive each day qualifies as newsworthy. Only the most relevant, or reflective of government at its best, or at its worst, or evidence of overreach, or ineptitude makes it newsworthy.
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Our job is to carefully and skeptically choose relevant governmental content for our readers -- and to include the unexpurgated original source material, whose chain of custody we control.
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Our commitment to time-honored journalistic standards and a clear statement about the ethics to which we agree to be held today and tomorrow, Newsroom Magazine began publication when the Internet was young -- 2006.
Our prime mission then, as now, is to publish non political ideas, definitions, essays and editorials.
To speak to the state of this honorable calling.
And to inform the public about those things, events and ideas that matter most to us all.
Today, tomorrow, forever.
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Boobus Americanus -- Where's The Money?
The under-informed, uninvolved, often inebriated and occasionally high Americans Mikael Blaisdell has so elegantly described as boobus Americanus were made that way by an unrelenting media-driven political anarchy in which only that which is obsessive, prurient, or over the top is deemed of sufficient interest to warrant air-time.
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America’s Migration From Sustainable Values To Situational Ethics
Readers are invited to add their voice to this and other commentaries. Submissions that meet our published standards for probity and language will be considered for publication under the writer’s name.
Today’s Americans appear to believe they have the inalienable right to be entertained, propositioned and endlessly opportuned. Television whether network or cable accordingly does its best to deliver what we want. Ever wonder what it is they give us?
18 minutes of commercials per hour.
Dramatized news.
Fake music.
Pedantic plots.
Sports programming in which the game is largely concealed behind a mask of hype, mindless testosterone, and gesticulation as if the equivalent of thought.
Big Media, especially those that communicate information electronically, are skilled at delivering the drivel and mind-numbing content. We accept what they dish-out — adroitly intertwined with commercial content to monetize our national appetite for violence, sex, conflict, manufactured obsession, and voyeurism.
Thus an ignorant nation is held hostage by single stakeholder values that favor dollars over all else. The good news is that our media are highly profitable today. The bad news is we’re an ignorant nation seeking to know less even as we demand more things, toys and pleasures.
The typical television station operator returns over 30% of top line revenue while delivering nearly 8 hours of commercials seven days a week while telling the American nation very little it doesn’t want to hear.
More often than not, the polling organizations that big-media engages to ascertain our likes and dislikes overtly simplify complex issues in favor of pithy one liners. Take, for example, recent polls that re-affirm all-time low approval ratings for Congress, the President, and politicians of every persuasion.
Are such polls relevant — let alone probative of something meaningful? Or are they simply part of big-media’s misappropriation of American reality?
The festering problems of failed leadership and dysfunctional governance in Washington today are unparalleled in American history.
The under-informed, uninvolved, often inebriated and occasionally high Americans Mikael Blaisdell has so elegantly described as boobus Americanus were made that way by an unrelenting media-driven political anarchy in which only that which is obsessive, prurient, or over the top is deemed of sufficient interest to warrant air-time.
All of which raises a troubling question.
What does it mean when pollsters ask what is possibly the least well informed generation of Americans questions along the lines of “Is the U.S. Going in the right direction?”
Such a question has only one rational answer in today’s polarized and polarizing political debate — and it’s hell no!
The surprise is that only four out of five Americans seem willing to say so.
What are the others thinking?
Just our ongoing wars and near depression level unemployment would seem to warrant 100% polling numbers.
Add in criminality by and among bankers, the prostitution of young men and women athletes by the powerful cartel that now runs major collegiate and professional sporting enterprises, and you’ve only begun to identify what have become egregious, systemic flaws in American society.
Ask anyone over the age of 30 and you’ll get an earful of condemnation, blame and nascent fear about what is yet to come.
What one does not hear is anything specific.
Or non-political.
For as a nation we remain conflicted — confounded by own own pervasive ignorance and growing inability to articulate what’s really wrong — and ought to be done about it.