{"id":13063,"date":"2017-01-23T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/presiding-over-the-funeral-of-access-journalism\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:39:27","slug":"presiding-over-the-funeral-of-access-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/presiding-over-the-funeral-of-access-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"“Presiding Over the Funeral of Access Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, yesterday, I wrote:<\/p>\n

How about everyone just ignores the White House press room?<\/i><\/p>\n

Send the AP guy to get a recording, they ship that out to the news agencies and papers, and everyone else just spends their time fact-checking that and reporting on what they ACTUALLY DO and ignoring what they say except as anecdotal filler for the bottom of the column?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the Washington Post today (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

Official words do matter, but they shouldn’t be what news organizations pay most attention to, as they try to present the truth about a new administration.<\/i><\/p>\n

White House press briefings are “access journalism,” in which official statements – achieved by closeness to the source – are taken at face value and breathlessly reported as news. <\/i>And that is over. Dead.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

As Jessica Huseman of ProPublica put it: “Journalists aren’t going to get answers from Spicer. We are going to get answers by digging. By getting our hands dirty. So let’s all do that.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump’s press secretary killed it.<\/a>
Sean Spicer’s remarks, full of falsehoods, should inspire journalists to dig into what matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, yesterday, I wrote: How about everyone just ignores the White House press room? Send the AP guy to get a recording, they ship that out to the news agencies and papers, and everyone else just spends their time fact-checking that and reporting on what they ACTUALLY DO and ignoring what they say except as … <\/p>\n

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