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...best safeguard against corporate conflicts is openness and full disclosure, so readers and viewers can watch for any lapses in editorial integrity (hence the chart). Our critics pan some Warner Bros. movies (the Batman series, I've noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...
However, we hope they won't impugn our integrity if they lack specific evidence. Someone who did look into this issue found that Warner products have, it so happens, been featured on TIME covers far, far fewer times than on competing magazines'. But we welcome continued vigilance. And we'll continue to be vigilant ourselves, since any compromise of our editorial integrity would destroy not only our magazine but also our careers. Having worked at this company for 18 years, I can confidently say that if there were any corporate meddling, the first public yelps would (and should) come from...
...prove ourselves hard-nosed in covering our own corporation, something that news organizations large and small have historically done poorly. Personally, I think we produced a good, tough cover story last year on the impact of violence and obscenity in movies and music, and on the crusade against Time Warner being led by Bill Bennett (who ended up on our "Most Influential Americans" list this year). This week we try to do a fair and honest job of looking at the strains caused by Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting and at the bitter battles and strange alliances among...
Disney and ABC. General Electric and NBC. Westinghouse and CBS. Microsoft and MSNBC. Time Warner and Turner. Among the trends in the media world is consolidation, with sprawling corporations' owning news organizations and raising the specter of conflicting interests and a less diverse babble of journalistic voices. The Nation magazine this summer published an octopus-like chart of media conglomerates, noting that the companies themselves would be unlikely to do so. Herewith, we do so, detailing that of our parent company...
...company that owns us has grown. Back when we were a small company, our reviewers could, for example, assess a book published by Little, Brown (long owned by Time Inc.) without having anyone (including the reviewer) pay the slightest attention to the connection. Since the merger with Warner, we face a lot more suspicions...