Osce. Columbia Journalism Review. CJR's guide to what the major media companies own. Select a media company below to begin. Loading... Time Warner Inc. One Time Warner CenterNew York, NY 10019 Voice (212) 484-8000 On Feb 13, 2014, Comcast announced plans to purchase Time Warner for $45 billion, pending FCC approval. Henry Luce, son of an American missionary, is born in China The four Warner Brothers, Jack, Albert, Harry and Samuel, open their first West Coast studio Luce and Yale classmate Briton Hadden begin working together as reporters for The Baltimore News The four brother's film distribution and production business is incorporated and called Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. Luce and Hadden use the $86,000 they raised to release Time magazine.
Warner Brothers film production releases the first "talkie" Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer First Time Man-of-the-Year features Charles Lindbergh Hadden dies of a streptococcus infection. Fortune magazine is launched by Luce as part of Time Inc. March of Time radio program first airs @ Max Cinemax. Re-thinking Objectivity. Principles of Journalism. The first three years of the Project’s work involved listening and talking with journalists and others around the country about what defines the work.
What emerged out of those conversations are the following nine core principles of journalism: 1. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth Democracy depends on citizens having reliable, accurate facts put in a meaningful context. Journalism does not pursue truth in an absolute or philosophical sense, but it can–and must–pursue it in a practical sense. 2. While news organizations answer to many constituencies, including advertisers and shareholders, the journalists in those organizations must maintain allegiance to citizens and the larger public interest above any other if they are to provide the news without fear or favor. 3. Journalists rely on a professional discipline for verifying information. 4. Independence is an underlying requirement of journalism, a cornerstone of its reliability.
There Is No Such Thing As ‘Objective’ Journalism — Get Over It. You read that correctly.
There is no such thing as objectivity in journalism. And it’s time to get over it. Every journalist has a political point-of-view and they don’t magically check that at the door the minute they land a job. Many pretend to pursue some noble cause of pure “objectivity,” but it is truly in vain. Every good journalist is informed about what the subjects they cover and it would be near-impossible to be informed and not have an opinion. Aside from outright disclosing a political bent (or as we do here at Mediaite, labeling an article a “column”), there are plenty of ways “objective” journalists can unwittingly reveal their biases.
Let’s say a conservative commentator spends a whole minute speaking with passion about some issue. There is also the more indirect form of tipping your hand: selection bias. I’ll start: If you read any of my posts labeled as “columns,” you might already know that I am a libertarian.