{"id":47,"date":"2008-03-22T21:57:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T04:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-03-22T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T04:57:27","slug":"political-transparency-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/political-transparency-for-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Transparency for Journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radical transparency is a trendy concept in the world of corporate public relations&#8230;but not so much in the world of political reporting&#8230;until now. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1722047,00.html\">The Case for Full Disclosure<\/a>, <i>Time Magazine<\/i> writer James Poniewozik argues that journalists should put all their cards on the table&#8230;let us know who they&#8217;re voting for and where they stand on the issues.  Instead of pretending to be unbiased, reporters should, &#8220;expose the sham of neutrality&#8221; and expose the lie that journalists are somehow able to remove themselves from the story. One problem, which Poniewozik freely admits, is that reporters may alienate half of their readers\/viewers. And it will be much easier to dismiss a story as biased and unfair if the reporter is on record as a supporter of the opposing candidate\/party\/position. And what if we find that journalists are predominately Democratic or, more specifically, Obama supporters&#8230;would public trust and confidence in journalism and the political process suffer? Transparency will likely come slowly, if at all, to mainstream media which, for now, is using the &#8220;sham of neutrality&#8221; to differentiate itself from the sometimes rancorous and partisan political reporting found on blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical transparency is a trendy concept in the world of corporate public relations&#8230;but not so much in the world of political reporting&#8230;until now. In The Case for Full Disclosure, Time Magazine writer James Poniewozik argues that journalists should put all their cards on the table&#8230;let us know who they&#8217;re voting for and where they stand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/political-transparency-for-journalists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Transparency for Journalists?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}