{"id":501,"date":"2009-05-27T11:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-05-27T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:10:51","slug":"wh-background-briefings-knocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/27\/wh-background-briefings-knocked\/","title":{"rendered":"WH &#8220;background&#8221; briefings knocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House print reporters are <a title=\"protesting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/26\/AR2009052603065.html\" target=\"_blank\">protesting<\/a> the administration&#8217;s frequent use of not-for-attribution <a title=\"&quot;background&quot; briefings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22279.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;background&#8221; briefings<\/a>.\u00a0 College of Communication Dean <a title=\"Tom Fiedler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tom_fiedler.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Fiedler<\/a>, a Pulitzer-winning former executive editor at the Miami Herald, can comment on why such briefings are a touchy media matter.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Tom Fiedler, 617-353-3488, <a href=\"mailto:tfiedler@bu.edu\">tfiedler@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House print reporters are protesting the administration&#8217;s frequent use of not-for-attribution &#8220;background&#8221; briefings.\u00a0 College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler, a Pulitzer-winning former executive editor at the Miami Herald, can comment on why such briefings are a touchy media matter. Contact Tom Fiedler, 617-353-3488, tfiedler@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1052,1051],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}