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Serving The Public Interest Without Fear Or Prejudice
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Newsroom Magazine's principal mission is to credibly and responsibly inform readers about the world in which we live.
Skeptical Editing
What we present as fact is to the best of our knowledge true and sufficiently revealed to be relied upon.Relevancy
What we publish is selected based on its news value and/or its national or global relevance to responsible citizens and those who seek to govern them.Probity
What we publish is chosen to provide meaningful insight into, or clearer perspective about the world in which we live.Fidelity To Fact
The foundations upon which our mission rest are fairness, accountability, responsibility and fidelity-to-fact.Public Interest
Serving the public interest without fear or prejudice rests upon our collective commitment to a clearly defined code of ethics, and consistently applied journalistic standards and editorial practices.The journalistic mechanisms by which we stand and to which we commit our reputation are credibility, relevancy and probity.
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Fulfillment of our mission rests, in part, on Newsroom Magazine's searchable and globally visible repository of everything we publish.Our mission requires that we record and index reports, findings and official statements about the role of government(s) in the world in which we live that are based upon editorial selection predicated upon credibility, relevancy and probity.
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To fully understand what government is doing, or failing to do, depends on a broad range of information about world and national issues and events. We focus on national and international stories -- most of which are related to U.S. government actions, decisions, legislation, regulation and military matters.Spin And Propaganda
Government generated news and information is no more forthright, or accurate, or fair, or complete than any other source of information whose content is intended to support, explain or spin a single viewpoint. Governmental news releases, statements or testimony is by definition propaganda -- no matter how much substantive information surrounds it.Information That Matters
Newsroom Magazine does not edit or modify government provided information, but we do consciously select and publish content that contains explicit information worthy of being permanently visible online.What Government Says Matters
While our editors seek to publish government-sourced information for its factual foundations we knowingly publish, from time to time, governmental materials that are egregiously overstated, highly politicized, slanted to administration policy, or simply foolish or misguided.Unvarnished Reality
What we publish is intended to provide the reader an unfiltered glimpse of government. We offer neither support for that which is best, nor criticism of that which is not. Our job is to validate that the source materials published by Newsroom Magazine are legitimate government delivered information.The government, department, agency, or authority to which the content is attributed is solely responsible for the credibility, accuracy and fairness of what they said and how they said it.
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Those who form, select, edit, oversee, manage and/or author Newsroom Magazine content are charged with fulfilling our mission by way of a narrative, opinion, commentaries, essays, editorials, news analysis, and stories about the human condition and/or the American Experience.Supplemental Content
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… by the summer of 2012, Google’s handing of personal information, data mining activities and/or cookie deployment were no longer substantially in compliance with Newsroom Publishing’s Privacy Statement.
Robert W. Butche, Publisher
Washington
Responsibility, Trust And Disclosure
Newsroom Publishing discontinued participation in Google’s Anayltics and data capture programs in November, 2012. A routine review of our published standards and practices statements and disclosures in April of 2013 revealed that we had not deleted Google references contained in our statement on personal privacy. All such references have now been removed.
Our decision to disassociate this publication from Google’s online data mining activities was predicated on two principle areas of conflict between Google’s current business model and this publication’s standards and practices.
In the year prior to our decision to end our cooperative relationship with Google, including participation in the company’s Analytics program, Google effectuated unilateral changes in its relationship with both its customer users and content providers including Newsroom Magazine. As a result, by the summer of 2012, Google’s handing of personal information, data mining activities and/or cookie deployment were no longer substantially in compliance with Newsroom Publishing’s Privacy Statement.
While there was a period when our privacy policies and those published by Google were largely in agreement, we found Google’s sharpening focus on advertising values and data capture for internal monetization and/or external sale or sharing, an unnecessary and unwanted invasion of Newsroom Magazine reader’s privacy.
Newsroom Magazine does not at any time retrieve any information from your computer.
Our consideration of the issues raised by Google’s actions and activities included an examination of Google’s public statement on its data capture and privacy policies. [ Google's Privacy Statement ]
We are not persuaded to believe that our decision will protect anyone from Google’s data mining and monetizing — only that what Newsroom Publishing states to be our policy is consistent with our actions.
Newsroom Magazine does not use cookies to store any information or to track your actions over time or across any other websites.
Our privacy policy contains two critically important statements about what information we capture from our visitors and our conscious decision not to store any information in cookie format on a public visitor’s workstation or mobile device. Newsroom Publishing’s long standing public disclosure statements concerning data mining and cookie placement adjoin this text in green shaded sidebars.
Our privacy policies are an extension of this publication’s ongoing efforts to earn and maintain a trust relationship with those who come to our news and information sites for probative, responsible and credible content. Our responsibilities are to create, select, choose, edit and publish content worthy of trust.
To be successful we must earn that trust every day, in everything we publish. We fully understand that the reader will determine whether or not we live up to our lofty intentions.
Our decision to abandon participation in Google Analytics, and to forgo their AdSence automated advertising revenue stream, is recognition, on our part, that continuing a relationship with Google that was, or had become, contra to Newsroom Publishing’s stated standards and practices, no longer met our needs or those of our readers.
Newsroom Publishing did not notify Google of our withdrawal from Google Analytics, nor announce our decision last year to remove Google’s Java code ( a requirement for participation in Google Analytics program ) from all of our content and server systems.
Robert W. Butche
Publisher
