{"id":250,"date":"2006-09-16T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-09-17T04:54:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T08:54:34","slug":"open-letter-to-russ-bynam-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/open-letter-to-russ-bynam-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to Russ Bynum -Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent this to Russ Bynam here in Georgia [ <strong>RBynum@AP.org<\/strong> ] this morning in response to his Friday AP report on law enforcement in Stillmore Georgia. I also sent a copy of my note to Bynum&#8217;s editor in Atlanta, Barry Bedlan. [ <strong>BBedlan@AP.org<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n<p>The AP report went to more than 80 news outlets all over the world. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tri-cityherald.com\/24hour\/nation\/story\/3373640p-12412523c.html\">here for complete article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on this one soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russ, in its final [edited?] form, your report on Stillmore has set a new low for reporting on illegal immigration and law enforcement. Congrats, you are now very well-known among people who pay attention. The bar you have moved is one that many of us didn&#8217;t think could be lowered much further.<\/p>\n<p>While it is still early, so far no one I know can point to a &#8220;news&#8221; report on the issue that contains less balance or a more clearly demonstrated agenda. It is somewhat disconcerting to have such able competition in editorial &#8211; commentary writing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spj.org\/ethicscode.asp   \">a link to the SPJ code of ethics<\/a>. Remember that?<\/p>\n<p>Smooth how you worked in the <strong>&#8220;This reminds me of what I read about Nazi Germany, the Gestapo coming in and yanking people up.<\/strong>..&#8221; quote,   BUT&#8230;FYI&#8230; the too seldom enforcement of ID, employment and immigration laws involved here is very much like they do it in&#8230;Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In a word&#8230;yuck.<\/p>\n<p>D.A. King<br \/>\nMarietta<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent this to Russ Bynam here in Georgia [ RBynum@AP.org ] this morning in response to his Friday AP report on law enforcement in Stillmore Georgia. I also sent a copy of my note to Bynum&#8217;s editor in Atlanta, Barry Bedlan. [ BBedlan@AP.org ] The AP report went to more than 80 news outlets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}