{"id":3004,"date":"2010-02-15T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:40:08","slug":"pilar-verdes-at-wabe-declining-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/pilar-verdes-at-wabe-declining-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilar Verdes at WABE, declining standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilar Verdes, formerly of the foreign language <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mundohispanico.com\/actualidad\/content\/actualidad\/articulos\/2009\/11\/19\/111909_articulo1.html\">Mundo Hispanico<\/a> &#8220;newspaper&#8221;, is now a stringer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pba.org\/\">WABE <\/a>radio in Atlanta. WABE is an NPR and PBS affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/babelfish.yahoo.com\/translate_url?doit=done&#038;tt=url&#038;intl=1&#038;fr=bf-home&#038;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mundohispanico.com%2Fdinero%2Fcontent%2Factualidad%2Farticulos%2F2008%2F11%2F13%2F1113_articulo1.html&#038;lp=es_en&#038;btnTrUrl=Translate\">HERE<\/a> for an example of Pilar Verdes &#8220;reporting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to WABE news director, Michael Feilds, today and he has confirmed Verdes employment.  &#8220;Pilar works for one day a week as a stringer&#8230;&#8221; was Feilds&#8217; reply to my inquiry. Verdes called me for an interveiw this morning and told me was working for WABE. Knowing Pilar and WABE&#8217;s reputation, I had trouble accepting that as accurate. Amazingly, it is.<\/p>\n<p>As a pro-enforcement American who has been dealing with Pilar&#8217;s resentful and argumentative antics &#8211; and her agenda &#8211; for years, I note that the collective professionalism in journalism at WABE has been reduced greatly with Verdes&#8217; employ.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, SPLC smear mill?<\/p>\n<p>In a word&#8230;<strong>YUCK<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilar Verdes, formerly of the foreign language Mundo Hispanico &#8220;newspaper&#8221;, is now a stringer for WABE radio in Atlanta. WABE is an NPR and PBS affiliate. Click HERE for an example of Pilar Verdes &#8220;reporting&#8221;. I spoke to WABE news director, Michael Feilds, today and he has confirmed Verdes employment. &#8220;Pilar works for one day [&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\/3004"}],"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=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}