{"id":29950,"date":"2012-08-24T20:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/the-threadbare-standards-of-honest-journalism.html"},"modified":"2012-08-24T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T02:01:21","slug":"the-threadbare-standards-of-honest-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/the-threadbare-standards-of-honest-journalism.html","title":{"rendered":"The threadbare standards of Honest Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s sort of like the bare minimum you do when the government in the country you&#39;re reporting from is editing your broadcasts &#8212; you let the viewers know that they are seeing an edited broadcast. \u00a0Similarly, agreeing to do a political interview and only letting people know about the conditions on the interview later should be the minimum, rather than the praiseworthy standard.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.salon.com%2F2012%2F08%2FRTR373G1-150x150.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/08\/24\/letting_romney_off_easy\/'>Letting Romney off easy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhy was a reporter praised this week for choosing not to ask Mitt Romney hard questions about Todd Akin?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/5nF5451ZwCE' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s sort of like the bare minimum you do when the government in the country you&#39;re reporting from is editing your broadcasts &#8212; you let the viewers know that they are seeing an edited broadcast. \u00a0Similarly, agreeing to do a political interview and only letting people know about the conditions on the interview later should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/the-threadbare-standards-of-honest-journalism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The threadbare standards of Honest Journalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51431,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/michigan-okays-religious-based-discrimination-in-state-funded-adoptions.html","url_meta":{"origin":29950,"position":0},"title":"Michigan okays religious-based discrimination in state-funded adoptions","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Jun-15 4:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Michigan gives about $20M a year to private agencies, many of them faith-based, to handle adoption services. 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