{"id":1480,"date":"2017-05-14T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2017-05-14T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:30:48","slug":"the-presidency-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/14\/the-presidency-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidency and the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn the New Yorker, Oct 1, 1973, Richard Harris wrote an in-depth essay on the &#8220;The Presidency and the Press&#8221;, coving the Nixon White House and providing a good deal of background on the topic. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1973\/10\/01\/the-presidency-and-the-press?mbid=nl_Sunday%20Longreads%20(28)%20remainder&#038;CNDID=23827011&#038;spMailingID=11020544&#038;spUserID=MTMzMTgyMzAwNTc4S0&#038;spJobID=1161207644&#038;spReportId=MTE2MTIwNzY0NAS2\">It can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This country\u2019s reporters observe the odd tradition of providing a new President with a \u201choneymoon\u201d\u2014that is, leaving him largely free of press criticism for a few months after he is inaugurated, regardless of the damage done to the people\u2019s right and need to know what the government is up to. Ordinarily, the journalistic honeymoon is three or four months long, but President Nixon\u2019s honeymoon in 1969 ran for nearly nine months. As a result, very little was said by the press about some of the most important actions that the Nixon Administration took during the period\u2014actions that showed the course it would follow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New Yorker, Oct 1, 1973, Richard Harris wrote an in-depth essay on the &#8220;The Presidency and the Press&#8221;, coving the Nixon White House and providing a good deal of background on the topic. It can be found here. This country\u2019s reporters observe the odd tradition of providing a new President with a \u201choneymoon\u201d\u2014that &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/14\/the-presidency-and-the-press\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[128,1190,1194,1204,1345,1355],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1480","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-agnew","11":"post_tag-new-yorker","12":"post_tag-newspaper","13":"post_tag-nixon","14":"post_tag-presidency","15":"post_tag-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}