{"id":272,"date":"2005-11-29T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=272"},"modified":"2005-11-29T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T09:05:00","slug":"comment_separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/11\/comment_separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Crow, the stalwart bassist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0195187954%3Fv%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155%2526s%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance\"target=\"_blank\">indispensable jazz anecdotist<\/a>, comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2005\/11\/other_matters_t.html\"target=\"_blank\">Rifftides posting<\/a> about the separation of reporting from advertising.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m glad you brought up the news\/advertising issue in newspapers.  And it isn&#8217;t just the advertisers&#8230;it&#8217;s the editors.  I rely on <em>The New York Times<\/em> for a lot of the information I want, but I&#8217;m afraid it isn&#8217;t the paper it once was.  There seems to be a new editorial policy to make the front page more entertaining.  There are hardly any straight news stories any more. Everything is written with a byline, and with a personal slant.  It bugs me to have to wade through three paragraphs of cute writing in a news story before I can find out what happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Every day or so, the <em>Times<\/em> notes in its Corrections department a mistake that was made &#8220;due to an editing error.&#8221;  They&#8217;ve got to find this editor and stop him before he edits again!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Crow, the stalwart bassist and indispensable jazz anecdotist, comments on the Rifftides posting about the separation of reporting from advertising. I&#8217;m glad you brought up the news\/advertising issue in newspapers. And it isn&#8217;t just the advertisers&#8230;it&#8217;s the editors. I rely on The New York Times for a lot of the information I want, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}