{"id":983,"date":"2003-12-26T12:15:38","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/journalists-should-do-their-job\/"},"modified":"2003-12-26T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2003-12-26T19:15:38","slug":"journalists-should-do-their-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/journalists-should-do-their-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists should do their job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2003\/12\/26\/national\/dona.184.jpg\" alt=\"always in front of a flag\"\/><a title=\"New Year's Resolutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/26\/opinion\/26KRUG.html?th\">New Year&#8217;s Resolutions<\/a> By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>[T]here can be no illusions: <b>President Bush has turned this country sharply to the right, and <i>this election will determine whether the right&#8217;s takeover is complete<\/i>.<\/b> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Beware of personal anecdotes. Anecdotes that supposedly reveal a candidate&#8217;s character are a staple of political reporting, but they should carry warning labels.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, there are lots of anecdotes, and it&#8217;s much too easy to report only those that reinforce the reporter&#8217;s prejudices. The approved story line about Mr. Bush is that he&#8217;s a bluff, honest, plain-spoken guy, and anecdotes that fit that story get reported. But if the conventional wisdom were instead that <b>he&#8217;s a phony, a silver-spoon baby who pretends to be a cowboy<\/b>, journalists would have plenty of material to work with. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Look at the candidates&#8217; records. A close look at Mr. Bush&#8217;s record as governor would have revealed that, the approved story line notwithstanding, he was no moderate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes [T]here can be no illusions: President Bush has turned this country sharply to the right, and this election will determine whether the right&#8217;s takeover is complete. &#8230; Beware of personal anecdotes. Anecdotes that supposedly reveal a candidate&#8217;s character are a staple of political reporting, but they should carry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/journalists-should-do-their-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journalists should do their job<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}