{"id":1685,"date":"2007-12-11T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2007-12-11T00:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T07:27:45","slug":"abc-news-now-works-with-the-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"ABC News Now Works With the Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/12\/10\/abc-news-now-works-with-the-huffington-post\/\">From BigHeadDC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howie Kurtz<\/strong>, the media writer for the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/09\/AR2007120901476_2.html\">uncovers<\/a> a fishy relationship between a journalism giant and a liberal blog. While Kurtz didn&rsquo;t make much wind about it, he reveals within an item about GOP presidential candidate <strong>Mike Huckabee<\/strong> that the Huffington Post and ABC News have teamed up to report the news.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;ABC, working with the Web site, interviewed a former parole board member who said Huckabee had pressed the panel to release the convict, <strong>Wayne Dumond<\/strong>,&rdquo; Kurtz writes regarding a well-referenced story the Huffington Post published last week.<\/p>\n<p>The quote raises an important question: How common is it for an apparently nonpartisan news source to team up with an admittedly liberal Web site in reporting a news item? Isn&rsquo;t this a case of liberal media bias at its worst?<\/p>\n<p>Also raising questions about the news relationship, Kurtz quotes Huckabee as saying he&rsquo;s &ldquo;amazed&rdquo; that ABC News investigative reporter <strong>Brian Ross<\/strong> ignored information he provided to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheaddc.com\/2007\/12\/06\/top-abc-news-investigative-journalists-tactics-called-into-question\/\">Top ABC News Investigative Journalist&rsquo;s Tactics Called Into Question<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BigHeadDC: Howie Kurtz, the media writer for the Washington Post, today uncovers a fishy relationship between a journalism giant and a liberal blog. While Kurtz didn&rsquo;t make much wind about it, he reveals within an item about GOP presidential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}