{"id":39715,"date":"2013-11-12T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39715"},"modified":"2013-12-12T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:07:10","slug":"since-the-subject-is-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39715","title":{"rendered":"Since The Subject Is &#8220;Integrity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone, Hosts, NPR&#8217;s <em>On The Media<\/em><br \/>\nFrom: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Your Concern For Journalistic Integrity<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gladstone \/ Mr. Garfield<\/p>\n<p>I caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/radio\/#\/ondemand\/329949\">your story in this week&#8217;s edition of <em>On The Media <\/em>criticizing NBC<\/a> for paying, not only for footage (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AWIOpbJNPvk&amp;src_vid=Cz1FYP5hNkw&amp;feature=iv&amp;annotation_id=annotation_3351048271\">this spectacular skydiving accident<\/a>) but for exclusive access to the principals to the story.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8211; paying for access to news &#8211; is one of those things that furrow the brows of journo-wonks. \u00a0 And the two of you were audibly furrowed. \u00a0Gotta hand you that.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; paying for access to a news story is bad. \u00a0Gotcha.<\/p>\n<p>So is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38391\">being paid by a partisan pressure group to run a news story<\/a> even worse?<\/p>\n<p>Get back to us on this.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone, Hosts, NPR&#8217;s On The Media From: \u00a0Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: \u00a0Your Concern For Journalistic Integrity Ms. Gladstone \/ Mr. Garfield I caught your story in this week&#8217;s edition of On The Media criticizing NBC for paying, not only for footage (of this spectacular skydiving accident) but for exclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,263,255],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-39715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale","category-the-racket","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39715","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=39715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40495,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39715\/revisions\/40495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}