{"id":1205,"date":"2005-08-15T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/load-up-guns\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T14:46:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T18:46:49","slug":"load-up-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/load-up-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Up on Guns, and Bring Your Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit busy today, doing a bunch of interviews for my next <I>PW<\/I> feature story, so posting will be sparse today. But I wanted to note <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2124361\">Jack Shafer&#8217;s response<\/A> to the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001657.html\"><I>WaPo<\/I>\/Marianne Wiggins flap<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Stamping out conflict of interest may result in a &#8216;fairer&#8217; book review. But will it produce a better one? I think not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep in mind that Shafer cops to a &#8220;prejudice against fairness,&#8221; and argues in favor of greater <I>accuracy<\/I> in book reviewing: &#8220;If the Post is going to apologize for publishing the Wiggins review on ethical grounds, I&#8217;d like to see it ask for reader forgiveness when fully vetted and unconflicted reviewers give bad books a free pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit busy today, doing a bunch of interviews for my next PW feature story, so posting will be sparse today. But I wanted to note Jack Shafer&#8217;s response to the WaPo\/Marianne Wiggins flap: &#8220;Stamping out conflict of interest may result in a &#8216;fairer&#8217; book review. But will it produce a better one? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}