{"id":4744,"date":"2009-05-07T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2015-04-27T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T17:20:52","slug":"but-theyre-utterly-balanced-up-til-then-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4744","title":{"rendered":"But They&#8217;re Utterly Balanced Up Til Then, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo writes <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/federal-eye\/2009\/05\/journalists.html\">about a colleague&#8217;s job change:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior Producer Sasha Johnson announced Monday she&#8217;s leaving journalism to serve as press secretary at the Department of Transportation, meaning yet another member of the Fourth Estate has left to join the Obama administration<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isolated jump?\u00a0 As the artcle notes, hardly.\u00a0 The WaPo piece notes the large number of reporters who&#8217;ve taken jobs in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just in DC, of course; reporters in the Twin Cities have long found jobs waiting for them with left-leaning governments and pols.\u00a0 A <em>very <\/em>partial list; my old colleague Karen Louise Booth jumped from being MPR&#8217;s Capitol Bureau chief to being head of communications for the DFL.\u00a0 Brian Lambert left the <em>Pioneer Press <\/em>to work for Senator &#8220;Brave Sir&#8221; Mark Dayton. A scan of spokespeople for any variety of local DFL pols shows a who&#8217;s who of former producers, reporters and executives.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it&#8217;d be interesting to start a list of our own.\u00a0 Other examples, if you know &#8217;em?\u00a0 Put &#8217;em in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WaPo writes about a colleague&#8217;s job change: Senior Producer Sasha Johnson announced Monday she&#8217;s leaving journalism to serve as press secretary at the Department of Transportation, meaning yet another member of the Fourth Estate has left to join the Obama administration Isolated jump?\u00a0 As the artcle notes, hardly.\u00a0 The WaPo piece notes the large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[333],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesota-politics","tag-brian-lambert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","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=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53005,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions\/53005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}