{"id":1343,"date":"2004-05-05T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/05\/05\/so_called_liber\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T20:15:25","slug":"so_called_liber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/05\/05\/so_called_liber\/","title":{"rendered":"So called liberal media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SF Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/05\/05\/EDGRA6F8LU1.DTL \">feared<\/a> that publishing the disturbing pictures of Iraqi prisoner abuse would offend their readers and be seen as a political statement.  Some readers thought that the Chronicle was afraid of such reaction demonstrates how gingerly the \u201cso-called liberal media,\u201d as Eric Alterman calls it, walk around issues that may appear to reveal a liberal bias.  The paper published a brief note to it readers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chronicle decided to run the graphic images on the front page and on Page A12 because the editors thought the public&#8217;s right to know outweighed the potentially disturbing nature of the images.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> To which one reader replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why do you add those unnecessary, apologetic explanations for running the pictures of Iraqi prisoners being mistreated? After all, you are a news organization, not a laundry service for the U.S. government.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SF Chronicle feared that publishing the disturbing pictures of Iraqi prisoner abuse would offend their readers and be seen as a political statement. Some readers thought that the Chronicle was afraid of such reaction demonstrates how gingerly the \u201cso-called liberal media,\u201d as Eric Alterman calls it, walk around issues that may appear to reveal&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/05\/05\/so_called_liber\/\">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\/1343"}],"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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}