{"id":7488,"date":"2014-05-27T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:33:44","slug":"hashtag_progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/hashtag_progressive.html","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag Progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/ap-nyc-mayor-bars-media-dozens-events\">when transparency is a filter on Instagram<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In nearly five months in office, de Blasio barred the media from 53 events and limited access to 30 more, an Associated Press analysis of de Blasio&#8217;s schedule shows. On a handful of days, his entire schedule was off limits. All told, more than 20 percent of his listed events were closed to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Events in which reporters were notified of their existence but prevented from attending ranged from meetings with government figures such as the mayor of Seattle and Israel&#8217;s minister of foreign affairs to sit-downs with the NBA commissioner, the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Russian band Pussy Riot.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio&#8217;s spokesman Phil Walzak noted that any limits imposed on reporters are largely due to logistics, not secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>But some media watchdogs worry that the restrictions in New York reflect a larger trend of government officials limiting access to the media while getting their message out to constituents directly via Twitter, Facebook and their own websites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easier to manage the message if you leave the media out of it,&#8221; said Hunter College professor Jamie Chandler.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, when transparency is a filter on Instagram: In nearly five months in office, de Blasio barred the media from 53 events and limited access to 30 more, an Associated Press analysis of de Blasio&#8217;s schedule shows. On a handful of days, his entire schedule was off limits. All told, more than 20 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}