{"id":1151,"date":"2007-08-07T05:32:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T10:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:53:24","slug":"anonymous-sources-code-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Sources: Code of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was June 27th when we noticed<\/a> that Jeff Fecke of the Minnesota Monitor was playing fast and loose with the rules of journalism (to say nothing of blogging).<\/p>\n

It was July 2nd when we noted that there was at the very least a strong appearance of plagiarism<\/a> on the part of this “journalist” whose publication is funded by liberals with deep pockets and which has gone as far as hiring former Strib reporter Eric Black to burnish its reportation as a “journalistic” endeavor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We noted, correctly, that despite their\u00a0own self-published “Code of Ethics<\/a>” that bids them to “Admit mistakes and correct them promptly”, there’s been nary a peep from the “New Journalists” at the Minnesota Monitor explaining, much less admitting to, these problems.<\/p>\n

Their “code” seems to be entirely based on denying responsibility for their “mistakes”.<\/p>\n

So when will the “Monitor” follow its own code of ethics<\/a>?\u00a0 Or are they above all that?<\/p>\n

I’m not asking because I expect an answer, of course.\u00a0 They won’t.\u00a0 I just want reinforce the salient point in the minds of the Twin Cities’ online news consumer; the credibility, ethics and talent in the regional online alternative news market is overwhelmingly congregated on the right.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I put the question in a link so that none of them can claim to have not read it; it’ll appear, word for word, on their “Technorati” query results.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was June 27th when we noticed that Jeff Fecke of the Minnesota Monitor was playing fast and loose with the rules of journalism (to say nothing of blogging). It was July 2nd when we noted that there was at the very least a strong appearance of plagiarism on the part of this “journalist” whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/49894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}