{"id":403,"date":"2007-07-10T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=403"},"modified":"2007-07-10T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T17:57:25","slug":"wolf-blitzers-journalistic-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/403","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Blitzer&#8217;s journalistic integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent much-linked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JpKoN40K7mA\">interview with Michael Moore,<\/a> Moore mentions that he can&#8217;t imagine what pharmaceutical company will be sponsoring the next commercial.  Blitzer responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fairness we&#8217;ve got a lot of commercials for Sicko that we&#8217;ve been running on CNN as well, so, uh, we have commercials.   This is a business, obviously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That struck me as an odd argument.  I was expecting something more along the lines of &#8220;at CNN we have strict separation between our ad sales division and our news division, so the commercials we run have no impact on the stories we cover.&#8221;  But he didn&#8217;t say anything like that.  Is Blitzer tacitly acknowledging that CNN changes its news based on who the sponsors are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent much-linked interview with Michael Moore, Moore mentions that he can&#8217;t imagine what pharmaceutical company will be sponsoring the next commercial. Blitzer responds: In fairness we&#8217;ve got a lot of commercials for Sicko that we&#8217;ve been running on CNN as well, so, uh, we have commercials. This is a business, obviously. That struck &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wolf Blitzer&#8217;s journalistic integrity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}