{"id":693,"date":"2005-06-15T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/06\/15\/rozelled\/"},"modified":"2005-06-15T10:52:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T14:52:02","slug":"rozelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/06\/15\/rozelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Rozelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many stories can The Washington Post use one analyst in one day? Today\u2019s answer:  three.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/14\/AR2005061400681.html \">Mike Shear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/14\/AR2005061401729.html\">Peter Whoriskey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/14\/AR2005061401651.html\">Rosalind S. Helderman<\/a> all quoted George Mason professor Mark Rozell in their stories.  His insights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Both candidates [for the Republcian nomination for Lieutenant Governor] have been running really far to the right,&#8221; said Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University.<\/p>\n<p>George Mason University public policy professor Mark J. Rozell said Byrne appealed to &#8220;the more true-believer types&#8221; who dominate a Democratic primary. &#8220;The activist core tends to be much more liberal than the general election base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The races are somewhat a test case of how viable this anti-tax movement can be,&#8221; said Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and co-editor of &#8220;The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics.&#8221; &#8220;If we judge them by the criterion of winning primaries, we ultimately may judge them failures after tonight. If the criterion is their ability to foster debate and send a signal to incumbents, they might be considered successful.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, all of those thoughts caught me completely by surprise.  What astute perceptions!  (The last one seems a particularly contorted stretch to keep the tax battle alive and will no doubt be used by reporters to justify the same angles through November.)<\/p>\n<p>How lazy can one newspaper collectively be to quote the same guy in three stories with comments that a reasonable intelligent seventh grader could make?  This is not to bash Rozell.  I\u2019m sure he works very hard to get himself quoted: good for the school; good for him.  But why can\u2019t reporters expand their Rolodex beyond a half dozen poli sci professors?  Many bloggers have had more astute comments over the past few days.  Why not call upon them?  Even if they are generally partisan, I think the chance of getting insight is probably better with those closer to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many stories can The Washington Post use one analyst in one day? Today\u2019s answer: three. Mike Shear, Peter Whoriskey and Rosalind S. Helderman all quoted George Mason professor Mark Rozell in their stories. His insights: &#8220;Both candidates [for the Republcian nomination for Lieutenant Governor] have been running really far to the right,&#8221; said Mark&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/06\/15\/rozelled\/\">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\/693"}],"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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}