{"id":3630,"date":"2008-07-31T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2008-07-31T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T00:32:00","slug":"minority-journalists-cant-stop-themselves-from-applausing-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"Minority Journalists Can&#8217;t Stop Themselves From Applausing Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starbulletin.com\/2008\/07\/28\/news\/story05.html\">Here&#8217;s the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/TalkRadio\/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&amp;ContentGuid=0212ae6b-7404-483a-801f-c043e985f5ba\">Dennis Prager says July 31<\/a>: &quot;I am opposed to these [race-based] organizations&#8217; existence.&nbsp;Once you are a black journalist rather than a journalist, it changes the nature of your journalism. If you are a Jewish journalist, then it changes the nature of your journalism. I don&#8217;t know if there is a Jewish journalist association unless if is forJewish journals. For black journals, fine.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you are a journalist for the mainstream media, you shouldn&#8217;t be part of an organization that narrows your identity as a journalist.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What is the difference between a journalist in the black journalist association and a journalist not in the organization and they are both reporting on an Obama press conference?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Journalism has to be as neutral as possible or it is opinion. I wouldn&#8217;t mind if it was opinion. An association of black columnists, fine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And we accept this as a norm in American life. It is a tearing down of the notion of an American. And they act like they are for unity. The name of the group is Unity &#8217;08. We believe in Unity but we belong to journalist associations that disunite journalists.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would have no problem if every journalist who is a member of one of these associations (all on the Left) mentioned it in every article so we would know where they were coming from.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the report. Dennis Prager says July 31: &quot;I am opposed to these [race-based] organizations&#8217; existence.&nbsp;Once you are a black journalist rather than a journalist, it changes the nature of your journalism. If you are a Jewish journalist, then it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3630\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[30239,29761,10919,2845,10053],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-barack-obama","tag-dennis-prager","tag-journalist-association","tag-mainstream-media","tag-minority-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","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=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}