{"id":2970,"date":"2009-08-25T16:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2009-08-26T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T20:44:13","slug":"embed-reporters-vetted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/25\/embed-reporters-vetted\/","title":{"rendered":"Embed reporters vetted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &amp; Stripes reports that the Rendon Group PR firm is <a title=\"screening journalists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=64348\" target=\"_blank\">screening journalists <\/a>who request to be &#8220;embedded&#8221; with U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The Pentagon acknowledges Rendon rates the reporters based on their prior coverage of the military,\u00a0but insists they&#8217;re <a title=\"not rejecting\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090825\/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe\/us_pentagon_media_4\/print\" target=\"_blank\">not rejecting <\/a>embed requests based on negative coverage.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Bob Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Zelnick<\/a>, a former ABC News foreign correspondent, says only the news outlets should choose which reporter to embed.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Any departure from this practice, such as screening the reporters on policy or ideological grounds, would be inexcusable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Bob Zelnick, 617-353-5007, <a href=\"mailto:bzelnick@bu.edu\">bzelnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &amp; Stripes reports that the Rendon Group PR firm is screening journalists who request to be &#8220;embedded&#8221; with U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The Pentagon acknowledges Rendon rates the reporters based on their prior coverage of the military,\u00a0but insists they&#8217;re not rejecting embed requests based on negative coverage.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, a former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}