Last Tuesday I posted “What’s With The Post’s Lisa Rein?” here, noting that she has quoted anti-tax advocate James Parmelee in at least 20 stories in the past two years. She’s not the only one at The Post with Parmelee on speed dial. A Lexis-Nexis search turns up nearly 100 instances over the past two years of Parmelee being quoted in the paper’s stories – about once a week.<\/p>\n
Last week, he was a star. Not only did he appear in Rein’s story, but he was quoted in two different stories (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) yesterday and had his picture with his name in the cutline. <\/p>\n Worse, his quotes do nothing to illuminate the questions, and Post reporters allow him to make uncorroborated statements, as in the story about the state’s budget debate:<\/p>\n “I’m not saying we shouldn’t fund the disabled children or not fund the hospitals and nursing homes,” said James T. Parmelee, a tax opponent who sits on the board of the state’s Department of Medical Assistance Services. “But there are more effective ways we can provide these services — so that people on the waiting list can receive what they need, but we can also balance our budget without raising taxes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n OK. What ways? Did reporter Chris Jenkins even think to ask? (Download file<\/a>“>Read more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Tuesday I posted “What’s With The Post’s Lisa Rein?” here, noting that she has quoted anti-tax advocate James Parmelee in at least 20 stories in the past two years. She’s not the only one at The Post with Parmelee on speed dial. A Lexis-Nexis search turns up nearly 100 instances over the past two… 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\/1535"}],"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=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}