{"id":1418,"date":"2009-10-19T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:10:01","slug":"nine-reporters-on-one-murder-and-none-to-spare-on-acorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1418\/nine-reporters-on-one-murder-and-none-to-spare-on-acorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Reporters on One Murder and None to Spare on ACORN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be even relatively safe from vicious attack, virtually all current writing on public affairs must begin with caveats (such as \u201cI am not a racist\u201d or \u201cI really do want peace on earth but&#8230;\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Okay, then, here\u2019s our caveat for this one.\u00a0 We absolutely love crime reporting.\u00a0 With particularly intriguing cases, we\u2019ve been known to live for it.\u00a0 Crime reporting is part of the grand tradition of American journalism and even grander stories.\u00a0 The number of truly great reporters who started on the graveyard police shift is staggering.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;(you knew there was one coming), we were considerably taken aback when <em>New York Times<\/em> Public Editor Clark Hoyt revealed yesterday that the paper had nine reporters covering the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.\u00a0 Nine reporters from one paper on one tragic but non-extraordinary murder?<\/p>\n<p>Remember when part of the <em>Times\u2019 <\/em>excuse for not originally covering the ACORN scandal was that the paper was overextended covering wars and famines and the natural disaster that is Congress?\u00a0 Maybe a few of the crime guys and gals could be reassigned.\u00a0 Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be even relatively safe from vicious attack, virtually all current writing on public affairs must begin with caveats (such as \u201cI am not a racist\u201d or \u201cI really do want peace on earth but&#8230;\u201d) Okay, then, here\u2019s our caveat for this one.\u00a0 We absolutely love crime reporting.\u00a0 With particularly intriguing cases, we\u2019ve been known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,251],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}