{"id":58709,"date":"2016-05-11T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58709"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:03:21","slug":"freedom-for-we-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58709","title":{"rendered":"Freedom For We But Not For Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The press isn&#8217;t so\u00a0crazy about background checks \u2013 when it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/on-media\/2016\/04\/secret-service-takes-on-new-credentialing-role-for-conventions-222017\">their freedom this being walked all over<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time this year, the Secret Service has a hand in credentialing the media; during previous conventions only the Congressional press galleries were in charge of credentialing the media&#8230;[Buzzfeed &#8220;editor&#8221; John Stanton] Stanton cited concerns about the background checks, the lack of a clear appeals process, and the involvement of a third-party subcontractor, urging his fellow journalists to express their concern over the process.\u201cIt seems like an unnecessary step and it gives them in my mind a new and troubling precedence to try and exert authority over the press corps,\u201d Stanton said in an interview. \u201cIt creates a logistical burden, a troubling precedent for their ability to have almost a de facto say in who is qualified to be a reporter at these events. What if they use this as precedent to extend to other campaign events or any government events?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right &#8211; but if it saves just one life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press isn&#8217;t so\u00a0crazy about background checks \u2013 when it&#8217;s their freedom this being walked all over: For the first time this year, the Secret Service has a hand in credentialing the media; during previous conventions only the Congressional press galleries were in charge of credentialing the media&#8230;[Buzzfeed &#8220;editor&#8221; John Stanton] Stanton cited concerns about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58709","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=58709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58715,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58709\/revisions\/58715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}