{"id":195,"date":"2004-06-01T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2004-06-01T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T00:04:00","slug":"barbara-bradley-hagerty-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Bradley Hagerty, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, I’m a late arrival <\/a>at this particular meme party. Various people have been all over Hagerty’s religion reporting on NPR before now. The gist: she lets her born-again evangelical values influence how she covers stories, and NPR administrators ignore her violations of their reporter’s code of ethics.<\/p>\n

“Daily Kos,” the political blog, calls her a media whore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This atheist<\/a> is not happy either.<\/p>\n

And there is even an anti-Hagerty entry<\/a> at this church-and-state blog.<\/p>\n

It sounds like a story for the guys at Get Religion<\/a>, except that their views dovetail perhaps too well with Hagerty’s to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, I’m a late arrival at this particular meme party. Various people have been all over Hagerty’s religion reporting on NPR before now. The gist: she lets her born-again evangelical values influence how she covers stories, and NPR administrators ignore her violations of their reporter’s code of ethics. “Daily Kos,” the political blog, calls her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-39","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=194","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":0},"title":"A delayed reaction to Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s NPR pieces","author":"Chas S. 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