{"id":122,"date":"2006-12-08T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-12-08T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T23:17:00","slug":"the-whitehall-press-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/the-whitehall-press-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whitehall Press Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two different views of yesterday&#8217;s Blair-Bush presser, care of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200612080009\">Media Matters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><p>Long live the British press!<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the small-bore questions that American reporters posed to President Bush yesterday about his Iraq policy, two British journalists cut right to the central issue of the president&#8217;s credibility&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">WaPo<\/span>&#8216;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/BL2006120800779.html\">Daniel Froomkin<\/a> <\/span>bigs up <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nick Robinson<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bill Neely<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Time<\/span>&#8216;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Karen Tumulty <\/span>on <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">NPR<\/span>:<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the idea that the American press has not raised these questions is absurd. I mean, there is right now a best-selling book written by one of the premier American reporters, Bob Woodward, called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">State of Denial<\/span>. So I don&#8217;t think that, you know, one particular question in a press conference, where reporters tend to be asking to impress each other as much as anything else, is a measure of the entire American press corps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcaps\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two different views of yesterday&#8217;s Blair-Bush presser, care of Media Matters: Long live the British press! In contrast to the small-bore questions that American reporters posed to President Bush yesterday about his Iraq policy, two British journalists cut right to the central issue of the president&#8217;s credibility&#8230; WaPo&#8216;s Daniel Froomkin bigs up Nick Robinson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[119,120],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-uk-journalism","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}