{"id":793,"date":"2004-07-05T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/07\/05\/taking-look-at-spin\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:28","slug":"taking-look-at-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/07\/05\/taking-look-at-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a look at &#8220;spin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s here, and the blogging is spotty at best. I realize it&#8217;s been awhile since the last Daily Upload. Maybe I need to think about changing the name of this blog! But what the heck&#8230;it&#8217;s warm outside and while I might think about interesting stuff to put up, if I don&#8217;t get around to it, I doubt any of you are going to complain too much. You&#8217;re probably all too busy doing your own summertime things&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s something interesting. Since the election campaign wrapped up in Canada, our attention (and our media) is going to be increasingly dominated by the Presidential campaign of our southern neighbours. There&#8217;s going to be a lot of stuff flowing around and it&#8217;s going to be increasingly difficult for readers to separate fact from fiction. <\/p>\n<p>That leads to an interesting question on just what &#8220;objective&#8221; journalism means and how we might need to redefine that term in today&#8217;s information-rich, always-on, 24-hour news cycle world.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2004\/4\/keefer-tsunami.asp\">interesting story<\/a> from the Columbia Journalism Review that sets up the issue. I relate to this as an old political reporter. But believe me, compared to the pressures that today&#8217;s reporters are facing on the campaign trail, I look like I was living in another world, even though is was only 10 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>Discussions about the role of the reporter in today&#8217;s political environment is a fascinating area, and it&#8217;s something I&#8217;m going to be keeping my own log on during the months ahead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s here, and the blogging is spotty at best. I realize it&#8217;s been awhile since the last Daily Upload. Maybe I need to think about changing the name of this blog! But what the heck&#8230;it&#8217;s warm outside and while I might think about interesting stuff to put up, if I don&#8217;t get around to it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-cN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}