{"id":2576,"date":"2008-05-16T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2008-05-16T06:40:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T11:40:04","slug":"corruption-finds-its-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Corruption Finds Its Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/16\/business\/16pellicano.html?_r=2&#038;ref=movies&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">conviction of Anthony Pellicano on 76 of 77 counts<\/a> against him closes the chapter on yet another tedious LA trial with media and showbiz connections.\u00a0 The temptation to wash ones hands of the whole sordid business &#8211; like yet another OJ or Heidi Fleiss trial &#8211; is certainly there.<\/p>\n<p>But Patterico <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2008\/05\/16\/anita-busch-calls-for-investigation-of-chuck-philipss-pellicano-reporting\/\">has a great wrapup of what this story means<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read it,naturally.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s illegal to pay off judges, cops and prosecutors.\u00a0 It&#8217;s against the law to tamper with juries.\u00a0 But paying off the press is not only legal &#8211; it&#8217;s a cost of doing business for some people and, as Patterico shows, part of a day&#8217;s work for parts of the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, the conviction of Anthony Pellicano on 76 of 77 counts against him closes the chapter on yet another tedious LA trial with media and showbiz connections.\u00a0 The temptation to wash ones hands of the whole sordid business &#8211; like yet another OJ or Heidi Fleiss trial &#8211; is certainly there. But Patterico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","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=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}