{"id":2254,"date":"2007-08-22T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2007-08-24T08:52:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T13:52:17","slug":"latimeslet-us-make-this-perfectly-clear-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/latimeslet-us-make-this-perfectly-clear-not\/","title":{"rendered":"LATimes:Let us make this perfectly clear &#8212; NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michael Skube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/opinion\/la-op-skube19aug19,0,1667466.story?coll=la-news-comment\">LATimes oped<\/a> saga continues just when it seemed to be somewhat resolved. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oew-rosen22aug22,0,4771551.story\">Jay Rosen&#8217;s Blowback piece just out<\/a> answers Skube&#8217;s charges against bloggers handily and Jay used crowdsourcing in the blogosphere to produce and factcheck the article. It&#8217;s solid work.<\/p>\n<p>But as they say in the news biz, questions remain. <\/p>\n<p>Skube has admitted that he had at best a passing knowledge of the existence of TalkingPointsMemo. He said that references to TMP were added to his article by editors at the LATimes. <\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oew-newton22aug22,0,814145.story\">this note at the LATimes site<\/a> (not linked from the Rosen article BTW) that may be the case. <\/p>\n<p>Or is it? We know, now forced into the odd task of parsing the note, that Skube agreed with an editor at the LATimes that <em>&#8220;it would be helpful to include the names of the bloggers in [his] piece as active participants in political debate.&#8221;<\/em> No telling who did the choosing and the adding from this though.<\/p>\n<p>Did the LATimes editor add TPM or did Skube? Or does it matter? To the last, responsibility does matter in responsible journalism. &#8220;Mistakes were made&#8221; will not do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> This blog was sourced in Jay Rosen&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michael Skube LATimes oped saga continues just when it seemed to be somewhat resolved. Jay Rosen&#8217;s Blowback piece just out answers Skube&#8217;s charges against bloggers handily and Jay used crowdsourcing in the blogosphere to produce and factcheck the article. It&#8217;s solid work. But as they say in the news biz, questions remain. Skube has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}