{"id":3017,"date":"2005-07-26T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T13:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/26\/3017.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:09","slug":"posted-anonymously-because-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/26\/posted-anonymously-because-im\/","title":{"rendered":"posted anonymously, because I&#8217;m a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, for those who have been following the hoo-hah about anonymity and its motives, a quote from this morning&#8217;s New York Times, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/26\/politics\/politicsspecial1\/26roberts.html\">Skirmish Over a Query About Roberts's Faith<\/a>, by David D. Kirkpatrick: &#8220;The discussion was described by two officials who spoke anonymously because the meeting was confidential and by a Republican senator who was briefed on their conversation.&#8221;\n<p>Hmmm. How about &#8216;... because they wanted to remain anonymous&#8217;? Or &#8216;... because we let them&#8217;?\n<p>I mean, what is the point of having a policy that a reporter can only hide the identity of a leaker if there is no other way of getting the information, if the reporter is going to be a total patsy? And the editor is going to let the reporter be a patsy? Shouldn&#8217;t they just admit it and have a patsy policy?\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, for those who have been following the hoo-hah about anonymity and its motives, a quote from this morning\u2019s New York Times, in Skirmish Over a Query About Roberts&#8217;s Faith, by David D. Kirkpatrick: \u201cThe discussion was described by two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nytimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17476,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}