{"id":1105,"date":"2004-09-24T18:12:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T22:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/24\/extra_extra_rea\/"},"modified":"2004-09-24T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T22:12:27","slug":"extra_extra_rea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/24\/extra_extra_rea\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra! Extra! Read All About It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, for the days when people whose salaries we pay wouldn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctnow.com\/hc-background.artsep24,0,1394591.story\">hide behind the Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent is among those crusading for &#8220;senior officials&#8221; to come out from behind their cloak of anonymity. He has used his twice-monthly column in the Times to call on top newspaper editors to insist their reporters boycott background briefings, calling them &#8220;an affront to journalistic integrity and an insult to the citizenry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a time when news organizations have real credibility problems, to invite more by taking part in this charade is intellectually dishonest and cowardly,&#8221; Okrent said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that if the AP and the &#8220;big five&#8221; newspapers in Washington &#8211; USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times &#8212; walk out of anonymous briefings, their use would diminish.<\/p>\n<p>Slate&#8217;s media columnist Jack Shafer this week asked reporters who agree with Okrent to do something about it: &#8220;Drop me an e-mail every time an under-sub-deputy-director of flimflam convenes a background briefing,&#8221; Shafer wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;ll provide the creative destruction by publishing anonymice&#8217;s names in this column, thereby putting the briefings on the record.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, for the days when people whose salaries we pay wouldn&#8217;t hide behind the Bush. New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent is among those crusading for &#8220;senior officials&#8221; to come out from behind their cloak of anonymity. He has used his twice-monthly column in the Times to call on top newspaper editors to insist&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/24\/extra_extra_rea\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}