{"id":285,"date":"2003-11-11T06:42:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=285"},"modified":"2003-11-11T06:42:04","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T06:42:04","slug":"hey-mister-i-never-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/hey-mister-i-never-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Mister &#8216;I Never Vote&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/2003\/11\/11\/downie_dodge.html\">Jay Rosen says it&#8217;s time to get a clue. <\/a> Rosen gangs up on Len Downie, the Washington Post editor who keeps making these iffy claims that news is news and there&#8217;s no politics in the reporting of the mighty Post.   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back of all the Downie doubletalk about &#8220;information agendas&#8221; and &#8220;organic&#8221; decisions is a problem more serious: Leonard Downie&#8217;s quest for absolute innocence when it comes to having a political thought about journalism. He achieves this innocence by receiving all questions about the inherently political nature of the press as crude demands to politicize the press. &#8230; When he does this, he treats his questioners as stupid, or unworthy of respect. But innocence at such an extreme is really a kind of power; and this, I think, is what Downie is saying to us with his bowls of mush: I have the power to say nothing of consequence about decisions of consequence. And the truth is&#8230; he does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Rosen says it&#8217;s time to get a clue. Rosen gangs up on Len Downie, the Washington Post editor who keeps making these iffy claims that news is news and there&#8217;s no politics in the reporting of the mighty Post.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/hey-mister-i-never-vote\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}