{"id":26284,"date":"2012-02-21T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26284"},"modified":"2012-02-19T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:46:37","slug":"feeding-the-hand-that-fed-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26284","title":{"rendered":"Feeding The Hand That Fed Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama Administration has <\/em>created 19 jobs, anyway – for\u00a0Washington “journalists” and media execs who’ve gone to work for the Administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For some Washington reporters and media execs, cheering their team from the sidelines just isn\u2019t good enough: Tugging on a red, white and blue Team Obama jersey is the answer.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the case for a whopping 19 journalists and media executives, including five from the Washington Post and three each from ABC and CNN, who\u2019ve gone into the administration or center-left groups supporting the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not just a DC thing. \u00a0Here in Minnesota, the DFL and its various minion non-profits and “Think tanks” are clogged with former reporters.<\/p>\n

On the right? \u00a0Not so much.<\/p>\n

But no. No media bias anywhere out there. Perish the thought.<\/p>\n

But liked this bit, from a spokesman for the liberal Brookings Institution:<\/p>\n

Stephen Hess, a presidential and journalism scholar at the Brookings Institution, said reporters can be \u201cconflicted\u201d when they trade places. \u201cOn the other hand,\u201d he added, \u201creporters going back to journalism after a stint in government are always better reporters in that they now understand how government really works.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, to the left, the media and government are training grounds…for each other!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Obama Administration has created 19 jobs, anyway – for\u00a0Washington “journalists” and media execs who’ve gone to work for the Administration: For some Washington reporters and media execs, cheering their team from the sidelines just isn\u2019t good enough: Tugging on a red, white and blue Team Obama jersey is the answer. That\u2019s the case for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284","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=26284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26310,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions\/26310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}