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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.
Newsroom Magazine content remains forever online, searchable and accessible 24 hours a day worldwide.
What's Hot Is Rarely What Matters
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.
Newsroom Magazine's Storehouse Grows Every Day
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.
If You Publish, They Will Come
We are read on Capitol Hill, along K Street, and in the halls of government inside the beltway and around the world.
We are read daily on college campuses at home and abroad. We're visited from military ships at sea. We serve law-firms, major corporations, Wall Street the UK Parliament, state governments and cities with credible useful information.
Some of the world's most prestigious news organizations use Newsroom Magazine for fact-checking.
Government Information Unfiltered, Sometimes Imperfect
The amount of official news proffered each day by government, whether at home or abroad, is accelerating. Some of it newsworthy, most of it not.
Our job is to thoughtfully choose what's worthy of the attention of our readers.
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.
We leave the issue of deciding which if any of these qualifications applies to what we publish up to the reader.
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All of our government news content includes above the headline call out meant to convey the principal facts, action or information for those with little time to read a long document.
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.
Online Editorial Standards, Ethics And Purpose
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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The Year In Review
Today Ten Percent Of America Workers Are Unemployed Due To Failed Government, Failed Journalism, And Failing Institutions
The most awful truth is that most Americans don’t know or fully understand how seriously their nation, economy and social tranquility have been damaged by the economic and political elite who remain in power.
Washington
Published: August 26, 2009
‘By The Publisher
A Nation Turned Angry
Across our nation, in cities big and small — in villages and on farms — millions of American jobs have disappeared. Americans are angry at what has happened to their country and their livelihoods, but the awful truth is that Americans largely don’t know, or fully understand, how seriously their nation, economy and social tranquility have been damaged by the economic and political elite who blithely remain in power.
The problem is, you, me, all of us, were taken in by a popular but impossible belief that we no longer had to make anything people wanted to buy, or do real work, or take real risks.
As a nation, our disconnection with reality is palpable. Our insatiable thirst for entertainment masquerading as news has produced a generation of public affairs illiterates — Americans largely disinterested in what matters most in their lives. For them, the excesses of the rich and powerful surely came as a surprise. As did the loss of their jobs, their investments, their homes and their once blind faith that someone else would guarantee their right to live the American Dream.
Freedom cannot survive without engaged, informed and active citizens. Nor, in their absence, can government fully protect the interests of the peoples of this nation — for doing so demands intelligent political discourse and considered political engagement. While there is a great deal of misdirecting and fallacious political kerfuffle on our airways and Internet, there is scant intelligent discourse due to media that have been freed of any responsibility to anything beyond their own bottom line.
Today our freedoms are at risk because millions of Americans are unwilling to carry their share of the load. We refuse to pay our own way through taxation sufficient to pay our bills — all the better to live well at the expense of our progeny. We refuse to serve in the military in the belief that’s for the least of us, the poor, the uneducated and the misdirected.
Debilitating Indifference
We have become inbred in our culture and concealed deeply in the foundations of our institutions and value systems. All of us are infected by unreal expectations and misinformation. Some of us, those who govern or who manage our economy, are making decisions based on a failed model borne of failed education, failed governance, and failed ethics.
At the heart of our problem is a contagious urge to elevate our least significant wants to the level of vital needs. Today, some of us, largely those who govern or who manage our economy, are making decisions based on a flawed economic model borne of failed education, failed governance, a do-anything-you-like values system made to look acceptable by situational ethics.
We have come face to face with mischief of our own making. In little more than 20 years we have expanded our hubris and our appetite for wealth, power and things at the risk of our financial stability and at the expense of generations yet unborn.
Debt accumulation is not a long-term solution for any problem.
Our big cities are broke, or anticipating severe cutbacks. Nearly every state is facing a similar problem. Yet because our cities feel lawfully obligated honor commitments made before they discovered our nation’s institutional foundations were so badly flawed, some cities are faced with a reality none of them ever expected to face: They have insufficient funds to pay police, firemen and other city workers covered by contracts negotiated in good faith on the failed assumption that our economy was always going to grow.
We Did This To Ourselves
The awful truth is that our collective disconnect with reality is a principal cause of the unraveling and collapse of our most important and powerful institutions. Even this short list of examples is damming of both perpetrators and a dangerously preoccupied citizenry.
- Congress has allowed itself to become effectively owned and controlled by special interests.
- Business has become debilitated by short-term thinking and rampant rape and pillage of assets and income by officers, directors, managers and other insiders.
- Journalism is dying from disinterest, disconnection and abandonment.
- Broadcasting has made Americans weak by pandering to our insatiable appetite for the inconsequential.
- Manufacturing has moved jobs overseas to benefit the owners without any consideration for workers or communities.
- Finance turned away from wealth conservation and toward speculation and gambling with your money.
- Trade unions served their short-term interests at the cost of their-long term survival.
- Our governance agencies abdicated their responsibility to oversee in favor of big paydays for former regulators.
And now the piper must be paid. But not by us, for another awful truth is that the political elite have decided to spare us that pain by passing it off to our grandchildren.
Excess That Begat Failure
The debris from our excess is everywhere — strewn indiscriminately in our great cities. In many of our biggest cities people are suffering immense shock, enduring pain and emotional trauma. This we did to ourselves, as each of us sought to feather our own nest, no matter the consequences to others, is unconscionable.
We’re all guilty even as we remain in substantial denial.
Our most troubling issues are systemic, deeply rooted from decades of failed checks and balances. Nor are they transient — for the worst of our problems are the result of failed education, failed governance and failure to honor and respect one another.
Our cities are strapped for operating monies — due in part to wrong assumptions about their sources of income and profligate spending habits. Now, along with state, county and township governments, America’s big cities are facing the consequences of their bad habits and foolish decisions. Like their manufacturing counterparts, big city governments took the road of least resistance by agreeing to burdensome and largely irreversible labor agreements. Now that ordinary citizens no longer generate tax revenues sufficient to support city government spending, they’re faced with trying to cut back non-union services just to avoid bankruptcy.
It’s understandable that unions don’t want to give up their hard-won pay packages and benefits. They won their compensation and benefits through arms-length negotiations. Today, cities that locked themselves into endless pay hikes based on assumptions about escalating wages don’t have the money to support such agreements. So other government functions are shut down or cut back. While the unions, and all the rest of us believe that union contract problems will simply go away on their own, they most certainly will not.
The world we thought existed was only an illusion floating on a vast bubble of debt.
So, just what is it we learn from all of our mistakes and awful truths?
If we fail to come to the aid of our country we’re likely to lose it.