{"id":117,"date":"2005-09-17T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-07-08T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T02:14:58","slug":"what-do-blogs-do-that-the-mainstream-media-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"What Do Blogs Do that the Mainstream Media Don&#8217;t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/002158.html\">This<\/a>, for example. From the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billmon.org\/\">Whiskey Bar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our goal is to get the work done quickly. And taxpayers expect this work to be done honestly and wisely &#8212; so we&#8217;ll have a team of inspectors general reviewing all expenditures.<br \/>\n<strong>George W. Bush<\/strong><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/09\/20050915-8.html\">President Discusses Hurricane Relief<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 15, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In total, 64% of the IGs appointed by President Bush held some sort of political position, such as a political appointment in a Republican administration or a position with a Republican member of Congress, before their appointments as IGs . . . .Only 18% of the IGs appointed by President Bush had previous audit experience, such as experience in an IG&#8217;s office, at the Government Accountability Office, or at a private accounting firm.<br \/>\n<strong>House Committee on Government Reform<br \/>\nMinority Staff<\/strong><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/reform.democrats.house.gov\/Documents\/20050111164847-37108.pdf\">The Politicization of Inspectors General<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 7, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/002158.html\">Read the rest<\/a>, as they say. If you felt reassured when you heard a team of inspectors general would be watching over hurricane reconstruction expenditures, you&#8217;re in for a real eye-opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, for example. From the Whiskey Bar: Our goal is to get the work done quickly. And taxpayers expect this work to be done honestly and wisely &#8212; so we&#8217;ll have a team of inspectors general reviewing all expenditures. George W. Bush President Discusses Hurricane Relief September 15, 2005 In total, 64% of the IGs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}