{"id":186575,"date":"2013-12-16T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/16\/time-for-another-blogger-ethics-panel-3\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:07:00","slug":"time-for-another-blogger-ethics-panel-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/16\/time-for-another-blogger-ethics-panel-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Another Blogger Ethics Panel\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>60 minutes<\/i> just did a laudatory story on the NSA showing.<\/p>\n<p>They show how this heroic group of people just want to protect us.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now we know why.&nbsp; It turns out that the host of that segment previously wrked for the office of the Director of National Intelligence, and was <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/60-minutes-nsa-host-nypd-job\">Looking at leaving journalism to take a job as spokesman for the NY Police intelligence unit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; received another round of criticism Sunday for what  critics called soft coverage of the National Security Agency &#8212; and the  next morning, the host of that segment was reported to be taking a job  in intelligence or counterterrorism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The news program was given &#8220;unprecedented access&#8221; to the agency and its employees, said host John Miller at the outset of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nsa-speaks-out-on-snowden-spying\/\">report<\/a> &#8212; where he did note that he had formerly worked in the office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/12\/12\/bill-bratton-vs-ray-kelly.html\">Daily Beast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/12\/john-miller-nypd-cbs-news_n_4432385.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>  have reported in recent days that Miller was under consideration for a  job at the NYPD in an intelligence or counterterrorism role. On Monday,  the New York Post&#8217;s Page Six <a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2013\/12\/16\/cbs-newsman-miller-to-rejoin-bill-bratton-at-nypd\/?_ga=1.2983352.94490088.1378392070\">reported<\/a> that Miller was on the verge of taking such a job.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Revolving door journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Yet one more way that certain members of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> betray their profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60 minutes just did a laudatory story on the NSA showing. They show how this heroic group of people just want to protect us. Well, now we know why.&nbsp; It turns out that the host of that segment previously wrked for the office of the Director of National Intelligence, and was Looking at leaving journalism &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,974,1102,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-intelligence","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}