{"id":27069,"date":"2012-03-27T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27069"},"modified":"2012-03-27T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:55:18","slug":"bias-what-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27069","title":{"rendered":"Bias?  What Bias?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin &#8220;journalists&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/25\/journalists_signed_recall_petitions.html?ref=tw\">are in the bag for the recall of Scott Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2012\/03\/25\/wisconsin-journalists-signed-gov-walker-recall-petitions\/\">Jim Romenesko<\/a>\u00a0reports 25 news employees of Gannett newspapers in Wisconsin signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s OK; there&#8217;s a rational explanation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/article\/20120324\/GPG0101\/203240623\/Kevin-Corrado-column-Journalists-erred-signing-Walker-recall-petitions\">Green Bay Press-Gazette<\/a>: &#8220;A number of the journalists told their editors they did not consider signing the petition a political act. They equated it to casting a ballot in an election. But we do not make that distinction.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a news flash (as it were) that reporters have this much trouble with logic (equating a public expression of political opinion with the state-sanctioned vote).<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230;maybe for some of the audience, it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin &#8220;journalists&#8221; are in the bag for the recall of Scott Walker: Jim Romenesko\u00a0reports 25 news employees of Gannett newspapers in Wisconsin signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R). But it&#8217;s OK; there&#8217;s a rational explanation: Green Bay Press-Gazette: &#8220;A number of the journalists told their editors they did not consider signing the petition [&hellip;]<\/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-27069","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\/27069","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=27069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27078,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions\/27078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}