{"id":20467,"date":"2013-05-29T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20467"},"modified":"2013-05-29T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:03:04","slug":"one-imagines-this-isnt-the-response-the-administration-was-expecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/one-imagines-this-isnt-the-response-the-administration-was-expecting\/","title":{"rendered":"“One imagines this isn’t the response the administration was expecting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, James Taranto<\/a> talks about the surprising recent uniformity of opinion among media outlets:<\/p>\n

Hey, kids! What time is it? “TIME TO GO: HOLDER OK’D PRESS PROBE,” shouted the always subtle homepage of the Puffington Host<\/em> last Thursday evening. It was in response to the news, broken by NBC, that Attorney General Eric Holder had participated in “discussions” about “a controversial search warrant for a Fox News<\/em> reporter’s private emails.” That’s in contrast with the Associated Press phone-log subpoena case, from which Holder told Congress he had recused himself.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em>‘s reaction, while not as breathless, was more dramatic. The paper’s editorial appeared a week ago tomorrow — before Holder’s involvement had publicly emerged — under the headline “Another Chilling Leak Investigation.” The editorial was straightforward and reasonably argued. That may not sound like a great compliment, but this is the New York Times<\/em> editorial page we’re talking about.<\/p>\n

The editorial was remarkable as much for what it didn’t say as for what it did. There were no snide asides about Fox News<\/em>, or qualifications along the lines that “even Fox” has First Amendment rights. Nor did the Times<\/em> editors take any shots at George W. Bush, congressional Republicans or any other familiar antagonist. They simply defended Fox News<\/em>‘s right to engage in news-gathering and denounced the Obama administration’s assault on it.<\/p>\n

One imagines this isn’t the response the administration was expecting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto talks about the surprising recent uniformity of opinion among media outlets: Hey, kids! What time is it? “TIME TO GO: HOLDER OK’D PRESS PROBE,” shouted the always subtle homepage of the Puffington Host last Thursday evening. It was in response to the news, broken by NBC, that Attorney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,28,13],"tags":[224,213,154,101],"class_list":["post-20467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-media","category-usa","tag-freedomofthepress","tag-newspapers","tag-privacy","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5k7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20469,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20467\/revisions\/20469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}