{"id":2248,"date":"2013-10-29T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/29\/in-essence-i-see-the-value-of-journalism-as\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:56","slug":"in-essence-i-see-the-value-of-journalism-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/29\/in-essence-i-see-the-value-of-journalism-as\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. Any unwritten rules that interfere with either of those two prongs are ones I see as antithetical to real journalism and ought to be disregarded.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/28\/opinion\/a-conversation-in-lieu-of-a-column.html\">http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/28\/opinion\/a-conversation-in-lieu-of-a-column.html<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. Any unwritten rules that interfere with either of those two prongs are ones I see as antithetical to real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/29\/in-essence-i-see-the-value-of-journalism-as\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}