{"id":578,"date":"2006-06-12T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/12\/shears_report_o\/"},"modified":"2006-06-12T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T15:24:01","slug":"shears_report_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/12\/shears_report_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Shear’s Report on Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Shear\u2019s article<\/a> Saturday on the Senate race based on the \u201cPolitics Hour\u201d on the Washington Post\u2019s radio station was disappointing in the way he let Chris Matthews\u2019 interview of the candidates Thursday night dictate part of his coverage.<\/p>\n

But neither Plotkin nor Fisher could match the combativeness of Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” who oversaw a mini-debate between Webb and Miller on Thursday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote before that Matthews is a jerk. Here\u2019s my comment on Shear\u2019s Richmond Report blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am amazed, Mike, that you included the Matthews interview in your story Saturday. No matter who one supports, journalists should be appalled at the treatment Matthews gives many of his guests. His interviewing style is designed to “get you,” not elicit information, and his techniques are journalistically unethical, in my opinion. “Do you have access to history books?” In the context of the interview, what does that mean? Matthews supported this war early on. Didn’t he have access to history books? Give me a break. And why shouldn’t Webb stay neutral in the ’08 race? Warner may have been a successful governor. That doesn’t make him presidential material.<\/p>\n

By including Matthews’ interview in your story, you allowed him to dictate the coverage of the race. I’d prefer you rely on your own judgement as to what’s legitimate info. and fair play. Alas, maybe you did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The more coverage legitimate reporters give to Matthews\u2019 shout fests, the more he is egged on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Shear\u2019s article Saturday on the Senate race based on the \u201cPolitics Hour\u201d on the Washington Post\u2019s radio station was disappointing in the way he let Chris Matthews\u2019 interview of the candidates Thursday night dictate part of his coverage. But neither Plotkin nor Fisher could match the combativeness of Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,”… 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\/578"}],"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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}