{"id":70,"date":"2004-11-16T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/11\/16\/is-your-news-over-balanced\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T14:46:48","slug":"is-your-news-over-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/11\/16\/is-your-news-over-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your news over-&#8220;balanced&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a102\"><\/a>  Columbia Journalism Review&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2004\/6\/mooney-science.asp\">Blinded by Science<\/a>&#8221; article from last summer<br \/>\nmay come in handy  in my news writing class discussion of fact-checking, multiple-sourcing and public relations.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent&#8217;s recent &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/14\/weekinreview\/14bott.html?oref=login&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;position=\">It&#8217;s Good to Be Objective. It&#8217;s Even Better to Be Right<\/a>,&#8221; which builds on his earlier &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/31\/weekinreview\/31bott.html?ei=5070&amp;en=fb6a49964ad7d6f0&amp;ex=1100754000&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">Analysts Say Experts are Hazardous to Your Health<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #666666\"> (Note to past readers &amp; RSS subscribers: Because I can access this Manila blog from home, office or lab, I&#8217;ve decided to use it as a parking space for &#8220;may come in handy in class&#8221; links, whether they are &#8220;breaking news&#8221; or several months old, like the CJR one.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia Journalism Review&#8217;s &#8220;Blinded by Science&#8221; article from last summer may come in handy in my news writing class discussion of fact-checking, multiple-sourcing and public relations. Likewise New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent&#8217;s recent &#8220;It&#8217;s Good to Be Objective. It&#8217;s Even Better to Be Right,&#8221; which builds on his earlier &#8220;Analysts Say Experts are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}